Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr teaches history and politics at Cambridge University. She is the author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution.

Currently

  • Stolen Youth

    July 29, 2009 Subscribe

    The French Revolution as seen from Versailles.

2008

  • Bloodstained Ghosts

    November 6, 2008 Subscribe

    Robert Gildea examines France between the revolution and World War I.

  • Searching for Traces

    May 22, 2008

    There was little enthusiasm for revisiting the camps in Communist Hungary. Author Imre Kertész refracts that reluctance in fictional form.

2007

  • Terra Incognita

    November 21, 2007 Subscribe

    A mosaic of anecdotes and historical snapshots surveys the sociological diversity of France, past and present.

  • Savage Wars of Peace

    January 18, 2007

    Ruth Scurr reviews The First Total War, a study of Napoleonic France that illuminates the causes of all-out war.

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Blogs

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
45 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
53 Comments

» The Beat

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda | Frank's Financial Services Committee becomes focal point for revolts by members who worry about powerful banks and unemployment.
John Nichols
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
59 Comments