"Joshua Rubenstein has written a brilliant analysis and biography of Ilya Ehrenburg, the famous Russian iconoclast and critic. It is a pity that Ehrenburg is not alive to appreciate the quality of this work and the merit which is thus cast on his reputation."
-Harrison Salisbury

"More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of Russia in Stalin's time and of her relations with the West."
-Robert C. Tucker, Professor of Russian Politics, Princeton University

"A superb biography."
-Publisher's Weekly, December 11, 1995

"The story of a particular man and time, but also a finely drawn portrait of a writer and his conscience under siege in a place where the ill-chosen word could lead to exile or death."
-Kirkus reviews, December 15, 1995.

"A fascinating portrait."
-Library Journal, February 15, 1996.

"Well-written, meticulously researched . . . In the awful compromises he had to make in order to survive, Ehrenburg is very much a man of Europe's 20th century. Did the good he did outweigh the lies he had to tell? This thoughtful and engaging account of his life should remind us how seldom most Americans have had to confront such choices."
-Jane Taubman, Professor of Russian at Amherst College, in The Boston Globe, March 24, 1996.

". . . succeeds in presenting Ehrenburg's life against a panorama of historic events. It also helps us discern the baffling ironies of Ehrenburg's career. The book's chief
value, however, lies in Mr. Rubenstein's deliberate refraining from unequivocal judgment. He clearly means to convey his subject in all his complexity rather than offering wholesale absolution or damnation."
-Stanislaw Baranczak, Professor of Polish language and literature at Harvard, in The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1996.

"A masterpiece of painstaking scholarship."
-Washington Jewish Week, April 11, 1996.


 "He paints a convincing portrait of this exceedingly complex individual, approving but by no means wholly flattering, balancing his courageous and at times heroic qualities with instances of his equally shifty and sometimes downright scoundrelly characteristics."
-The Chicago Tribune, April 14, 1996.
"Tangled Loyalties is a first-class biography."
-Adam Ulam, Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard.