When he filmed Ten Days That Shook the World in 1927, ten years after the October Revolution that the movie recreated, Sergei Eisenstein had all Leningrad at his disposal. He took over the dead ...

The British thriller writer and Jack Reacher creator Lee Child said that Resurrection Day is "a book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever." An eclectic mix, but seeing world ...

On the other side of the world, it was a little book called the Communist Manifesto that had a similar impact on the international scene. Written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ...

It was an instant best-seller, so much so that in Russia it was some years before Stalin - who is only mentioned twice in the book - felt he could ban it for its portrayal of Trotsky. Possibly ...