I taught English in Poland in the 1960s and can safely say there were virtually no Communists in the country

The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust

Two new biographies of the Left's hero choose to ignore his dark side

Gennadi Sosonko's intimate personal knowledge of the Soviet Union's greatest grandmasters is unrivaled — and he was a useful player himself