Communism

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Requiem for a truth-teller

Robert P. George | 19 October 2012 |

tags: Communism, obituaries, truth

Historian Eugene Genovese was a teller of truth, even when the truth to be told was ugly, embarrassing, humiliating.

Have we reached a tipping point on abortion?

Michael Cook | 28 February 2012 |

tags: abortion, after-birth abortion, Communism

Two events last week suggest that its ideological appeal is tottering and about to fall.

The birth of the Berlin Wall

Sue Alexander-Barnes | 12 August 2011 |

tags: Berlin Wall, Communism

It appeared literally overnight, and kept East Germans imprisoned for more than a quarter of a century.

Gorbachev at eighty

Archie Brown | 28 February 2011 |

tags: Communism, history

On Wednesday, the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, celebrates his 80th birthday. A leading British scholar salutes a man who changed Russia and the world for the better.

Red Plenty

Francis Phillips | 17 January 2011 |

tags: Communism

An unusual blend of fiction and history about the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s offers fascinating insights.

Mass murder memories

Bryan P. Bradley | 28 September 2010 |

tags: Communism, genocide, Lithuania, Nazism

Can we mourn both Soviet and Nazi victims, together?

Capitalism is the most ethical form of economics

Jeffrey Langan | 11 August 2010 |

tags: capitalism, Communism, forum

The fact that capitalism vanquished an even worse rival should not blind us to its manifold defects.

Lest we forget: 17 April 1975

Var Hong Ashe | 17 April 2010 |

tags: Cambodia, Communism, history

On this day 35 years ago, the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh.

A continent where Communism lingers on

Pedro Jose Izquierdo | 12 November 2009 |

tags: Communism, Ecuador, Latin America, rationalism

The fall of the Berlin Wall restored common sense to Europe, but what about Latin America?

The other 1989s

Fred Halliday | 09 November 2009 |

tags: 1989, Communism, Eastern Europe

While the break-up of the Soviet empire brought freedom to Eastern Europe, elsewhere the consequences were often destructive and deadly.

The Roaring Year

Vytautas Landsbergis | 16 October 2009 |

tags: 1989, Communism, Lithuania

A MercatorNet exclusive: the first head of state of Lithuania after the break-up of the Soviet Union recalls the heady days of 1989.

Fatigue on the road to freedom

Bryan P. Bradley | 15 October 2009 |

tags: 1989, Communism, Eastern Europe

Twenty years after the demolition of the Berlin Wall, where has all the euphoria gone?