The aftermath of Wall Street's meltdown reminds me of the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall. Not in a good way
By Janine R. Wedel Nov 8, 2009
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Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure
By Laura Miller
October 14, 2009
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A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 1, 2009
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Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him
By Alexander Zaitchik
September 16, 2009
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A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 3, 2009
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Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China.
By Andreas Lorenz
June 4, 2009
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Is the president selling out the working man, or waging class warfare on behalf of the proletariat? Because surely he can't be doing both at the same time?
By Andrew Leonard
March 31, 2009
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Vivid Arab-French immigrant yarn "Secret of the Grain" is a near-masterpiece; fascinating Brecht documentary "Theater of War" describes one.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 24, 2008
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A reflection on current affairs
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2008
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
By Alexander Nazaryan
August 5, 2008
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In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century.
By Joe Conason
July 4, 2008
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How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 26, 2008
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How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 12, 2008
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Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
By Dana Cook
April 23, 2007
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This Academy Award-nominated film explores life in East Berlin under the Stasi -- and what it means to be human.
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 9, 2007
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I could jump ship, but it doesn't quite feel right.
By Cary Tennis
January 16, 2007
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For business reasons, Wal-Mart allows Communists to get organized. Meanwhile, China's middle class gets restive
By Andrew Leonard
December 18, 2006
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Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
By Sidney Blumenthal
December 14, 2006
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A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West.
By Sarah Goldstein
July 14, 2006
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The best biography yet of Joseph Stalin traces his life from abused child to murderous dictator -- and forces us to ask whether he could have taken a different path.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 5, 2005
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Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Reagan was willing to improvise on the far-right script, which is what ultimately saved his presidency.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 10, 2004
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In These Times founder James Weinstein on the American left's "long detour" with communism, its current crisis, and the hope he sees in Howard Dean.
By Joan Walsh
October 30, 2003
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In "Stasiland," writer Anna Funder talks to former members of the Stasi -- the communist East German security apparatus -- and to the people whose lives they destroyed.
By Charles Taylor
June 25, 2003
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Two academics are so eager to find socialist themes in classic Hollywood films that they wind up lending credence to McCarthyism.
By Michelle Goldberg
June 4, 2002
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There is only one force that could be responsible for this man's undermining of the capitalist system!
By Andrew Leonard
February 6, 2002