John P. Rossi is professor emeritus of history at La Salle University in Philadelphia.
Posts by John P. Rossi
May 30, 2024
This year marks the 95th anniversary of the book that for many solidified the view that World War I dealt a deadly a blow to European culture: Robert Graves’
Goodbye to All That.
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April 03, 2024
My library, a relatively small one by university standards, has over 150 books dealing with Winston Churchill, one of the Big Four of World War II, which included FDR, Stalin, and Hitler.
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October 17, 2023
The collocation in the title captures the thoroughgoing exploration of the topic in a phrase:
George Orwell and Russia. Masha Karp is not the first to ponder George Orwell’s relationship to Stalinist Russia—and the relationship of both Stalinist and post-communist Russia to Orwell—but she is the first to frame a comprehensive, well-researched study around them.
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