Ruth Scurr

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

Currently

  • 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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