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Orwell’s ‘1984’: How to misread a classic
Shawnna Morris
| 13 June 2019 | FEATURES |
tags:
1984
,
communism
,
George Orwell
,
Soviet Union
Roger Scruton on national identity and the legacy of communism
Roger Scruton
| 13 June 2019 | FEATURES |
tags:
1989
,
fall of communism
,
nationalism
,
Soviet Union
Remembering Solzhenitsyn: Observations on the Gospel, socialism, and power
Lawrence W. Reed
| 26 October 2018 | FEATURES |
tags:
communism
,
heroes
,
Solzhenitsyn
,
Soviet Union
Memorials of faith under oppression in a Baltic state
Chiara Bertoglio
| 11 Sep 2018 | ABOVE |
tags:
genocide
,
Lithuania
,
Soviet Union
Maria Yudina - the woman who killed Stalin?
Carolyn Moynihan
| 25 July 2018 | FEATURES |
tags:
music
,
Soviet Union
,
Stalin
‘A holiday in Siberia’: a Polish survivor’s story
Carolyn Moynihan
| 15 December 2017 | FEATURES |
tags:
ethnic cleansing
,
Poland
,
refugees
,
Soviet Union
,
World War II
Europe’s free speech problem: a cautionary tale
Paul Coleman
| 15 July 2016 | FEATURES |
tags:
Europe
,
free speech
,
Soviet Union
,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The unfolding of a totalitarian impulse.
The heroic life and mysterious disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg
Francis Phillips
| 12 April 2016 | FEATURES |
tags:
book reviews
,
Soviet Union
,
WW II
A new biography leaves important questions about this WWII hero unanswered.
‘1944’: Eurovision and the Crimean Tartars
James Harris
| 14 March 2016 | FEATURES |
tags:
genocide
,
Soviet Union
,
Ukraine
The Ukraine's contestant remembers Soviet crimes.
The bitter lessons of unbridled freedom
Francis Phillips
| 23 October 2014 | FEATURES |
tags:
book reviews
,
Communism
,
Russia
,
Soviet Union
The older generation of Russians suffered terribly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Is this the most miserable place on earth?
Francis Phillips
| 17 June 2014 | FEATURES |
tags:
book reviews
,
Communism
,
Russia
,
Soviet Union
A Polish journalist hitchhikes along Russia's remote Kolyma Highway.
“The Last Man in Russia”
Francis Phillips
| 08 July 2013 | FEATURES |
tags:
alcoholism
,
Communism
,
Russia
,
Soviet Union
Russia is dying. Its population is shrinking. Its people are drinking themselves to death. Why?
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Francis Phillips
| 04 November 2009 | FEATURES |
tags:
1989
,
Eastern Europe
,
Soviet Union
Lenin was an expert in kindling revolutions, but he would have been puzzled by the one which took place in 1989 in Eastern Europe.
The Whisperers
Francis Phillips
| 11 January 2008 | FEATURES |
tags:
book reviews
,
Soviet Union
Everyday family life in Stalin's Russia was a torment.
From the shadows of Stalin’s Russia
Francis Phillips
| 01 February 2007 | FEATURES |
tags:
book reviews
,
Soviet Union
A lost diary and a memoir of lost ancestors put flesh on tragic themes of the 20th century.
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