A book's title is vital.
Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.
As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.
Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.
Every time I give an interview, I seem to offend somebody in my family, usually my mother.
Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!
Historical fiction is simply fiction set in the past, and should be judged as such.
I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.
I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.
I am ashamed to say that both my children knew Stalin before they knew Thomas the Tank Engine.
I don't feel that Jewish people have a class.
I don't like sports. I'm not interested in sports. I hate sports.
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own.
I enjoy tequila, which has a strange effect on people and makes parties more fun than warm white wine.
In 1918, a police chief of Jerusalem was a Montefiore.
If only all straight weddings could be somehow gay-ified.
The shameless criminality of Lenin, Stalin, and the Cheka cast a long shadow, but I don't see their kind returning anytime soon.
Writing about Jerusalem can be such a minefield.
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators.
When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.
Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.
Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.
In the new Georgia, Stalin is no longer Georgian. He's a Russian emperor.
