Lenin

Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky

A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
  • Let's cut Social Security to pay for banker bailouts!

    You are about to be hit by another wave of disinformation about how Social Security is going broke and needs reforming (meaning, your benefits must be cut). It's not true.
  • Queer and loathing on Capitol Hill

    The succession of scandals among GOP lawmakers is shattering the remaining shards of the Republican "revolution."
  • Bush's bunker strategy

    A prisoner of the neocons, the president hunkers down, awaiting the outcome of the Libby indictment.
  • The human monster

    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.
  • The fools' guide to history

    In commemoration of April Fools' Eve, we celebrate the Seven Blunderers of the World.
  • "Would God forgive Lenin?"

    In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
  • I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice

    Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now.
  • The Cybercommunist Manifesto

    Are free-software hackers undermining capitalism and the free-market economy with their code giveaways?
  • Totally RIP-ed

    The strange story of Lenin's embalmers and a collection of cheeky epitaphs suggest that the Reaper may not be so grim after all.
  • Prisoner of its past

    The recent eruption of anti-Americanism in China reflects a deep-seated historical identity as "victim" that is holding back its emergence as a major power.

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