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Books interview with Richard J Evans: “For Hobsbawm, communism was a matter of life and death”

Richard J Evans talks to Rob Attar about his new biography of the world-renowned Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, and discusses the legacy of his work today

Richard Evans. (Photo by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

This article was first published in the February 2019 edition of BBC History Magazine

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