Corbyn’s Trots
Entryism plagued the Labour Party in the 1970s, and is doing so again
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Stalin’s Man In London
The newly-published diaries of Ivan Maisky are an extraordinarily important 21st-century contribution to our understanding of the Second World War
Fischer’s Cuban Crisis
A lesser-known Cold War chess clash which left Bobby Fischer the worse for wear
Unhappy Birth Days
A radical French obstetrician believes modern society is the enemy of childbirth
Getting Away With Murder
A new thriller set in late-Stalinist Soviet Union has alarmed Russian authorities
Delenda Est?
Why must so many wars be refought?
Prague’s Red Ghosts
The city's Museum of Communism is shabby and rather strange, but it should be
Two Generations Lost to Communism
50 years of Communism have left Cuba poorer than ever
Red Pawn
How chess became a tool of totalitarian Communism
Washington Reds
The characters are duplicitous, torturing sexual predators selling Western secrets to the KGB: the baddies, right? Not in The Americans
Communist-Free
I taught English in Poland in the 1960s and can safely say there were virtually no Communists in the country
Spurning Old Truths
The Taste of Ashes by Marci Shore is a history typical of a modern, intellectual "non-Jewish" Jew, which downplays the impact of the Holocaust