Communism

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/2/2020
  

  How History Will Judge the Complicit

  by Anne Appelbaum

  Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Turn out the Lights: When the Last American Diplomats Fled China

  by Joe Renouard

  The U.S. diplomats who left China in 1949 left oral histories that are now archived at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Their stories warning how how misunderstandings, misplaced hopes, and missed opportunities can poison relations between great powers.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  4/11/2020
  

  The Forgotten Women of the Gulag

  A new book by Monika Zgustova brings the harrowing, heartbreaking history of the Soviet Gulag’s female prisoners to life.

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• SOURCE: New York Times Book Review
  3/17/2020
  

  A Stirring Family Saga Tells a Taboo History of Vietnam

  by Gaiutra Bahadur

  Americans may not know that literature has been doing history’s job with brutal episodes in Vietnam’s past. 

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Churchill, Stalin and the Legacy of the Grand Alliance: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Geoffrey Roberts assesses the history and legacy of the wartime alliance and political relationship between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/5/2020
  

  The Truth About Stalin’s Prison Camps

  Vera Golubeva spent more than six years in one of Joseph Stalin’s gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 9, 2019
  

  ‘The day the wall came down’: How The Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall 30 years ago

  by Robert McCartney

  Thirty years ago, East German officials abruptly announced it would open its border, ending 28 years of separation between East and West Berlin. This story ran on the front page of The Washington Post the next morning.

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  8/27/19
  

  The Price of Self-Delusion

  by Ronald Radosh

  Paul Robeson, the towering figure of American arts, athletics, and civil rights activism, was also an unapologetic Stalinist. Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 3, 2019
  

  Around the World with Mao Zedong

  by Ian Johnson

  Julia Lovell's "Maoism: A Global History" traces the surprisingly wide influence of Chinese Communism. 

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• 8/25/19
  

  What We Can Learn On the 80th Anniversary of the San Antonio 1939 Municipal Auditorium Riot

  by Martin Halpern

  80 years ago, thousands of people rioted at the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium to prevent the Communist Party from holding a public meeting. The story reminds us that words can often incite violence. 

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• August 11, 2019
  

  Russian History Gives the United States an Ominous Warning

  by Laura Engelstein

  What can Russia's tumultuous history teach us about the brevity of stable governments. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Inside a Long-Lost Eyewitness Account of the Communist Takeover of Shanghai

  by Marc Wortman

  A recently rediscovered diary recounts the harrowing final days of the fighting that brought the Communists to power.

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• 4/2/19
  

  The Red Scare: From the Palmer Raids to Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope with the threat he represents every day.

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• SOURCE: Guardian
  1/17/19
  

  Was Eric Hobsbawm a dangerous Communist?

  He was branded a Stalinist, and was spied on for decades by MI5, but was the famous historian a hardliner and renegade? His private papers tell a different story.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  12/17/2018
  

  Communist Parades Gave the CIA What They Needed

  Some of the best opportunities for Western intelligence to get a picture – literally – of Soviet capabilities were presented by the USSR itself at public military parades.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-20-18
  

  50 Years After Prague Spring, Lessons on Freedom (and a Broken Spirit)

  The events that played out 50 years ago in Prague serve as a reminder of the fragility of the systems created to guard against war and tyranny.

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• SOURCE: NY Review of Books
  3-23-18
  

  Scrubbing Poland’s Complicated Past

  It’s reminiscent of Communist-era censorship.

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• 1/28/18
  

  The FBI’s Maoist Faction

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  A secret FBI plan to divide the Communist Party of the United States by starting a Maoist faction is finally coming to light.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  11-13-17
  

  The cautionary tale of the Bolshevik revolution

  by Niall Ferguson

  A century ago it was the West’s great blunder to think it would not matter if Lenin and his confederates took over the Russian Empire. Incredible as it may seem, I believe we are capable of repeating that catastrophic error.