Pathology and Politics
British author Josh Ireland’s new book about the murder of Leon Trotsky tells the gripping story of a rivalry between two very different men.
Ron Capshaw
· 11 min read
Soviet Union
A collection of 7 posts
Treacherous Men
A fabulous new history of the Cambridge Five by Antonia Senior provides the definitive account of Britain’s most famous traitors.
Ronald Radosh
· 12 min read
Chernobyl Forty Years On
How fear, misinformation, and myth came to define the world’s worst nuclear accident.
Marco Visscher
· 12 min read
A Self-Created Tyrant
In a new biography of Stalin, William Nester does his best to locate a human being within the monster, but those efforts eventually run aground.
Ron Capshaw
· 6 min read
A Minority of One
A valuable new collection of wartime letters written by Leslie Fiedler shows how politically astute the budding literary critic was about communism.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
What My Soviet Life Taught Me About Censorship
Censorship obscures our view of reality and impedes our society’s ability to function.
Izabella Tabarovsky
· 13 min read
The Soviets and the JFK Conspiracy Theorists
We can learn far more from the files still under wraps in Russia and Belarus.
Fred Litwin
· 11 min read