Posts Tagged ‘Communism’
Bitter Fruits
Decades after leaving the Eastern Bloc, an author recalls the American dream
Read MoreMilton Friedman’s Misadventures in China
The stubborn advocate of free markets tangles with the ideologues of a state-run economy
Read MoreControlled Experiments
The Soviet Union’s ideological and inefficient view of science
Read MoreThe FBI, My Husband, and Me
What I know now about Ted, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and about J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy
Read MoreThe Spirit of May 35th
A tale of dissidence, exile, astrophysics, and puckish wit
Read MoreWorkshops of Empire
A brief excerpt from Eric Bennett’s new book about creative writing and the Cold War
Read MoreThe Director Who Named Names
Reconsidering the legacy of Elia Kazan
Read MoreThe Number One Funeral Home
The memorial service for my father, the doctor who attended to Chiang Kai-shek, was no ordinary affair
Read MoreTotalitarianism in Practice
Terror as a way of life in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary
Read MoreThe Worst of Times
A Soviet city barely survives
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