Communism

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Some things don’t need deconstructing

Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the smoke and mirrors that obscured the reality of a failing East Germany

Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control

There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey

Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship

Deconstructing the left’s Cuban blockade fantasy is a matter of numbers

The legacy of communist cult leader Abimael Guzman lives on in Peru

BLM supports a brutal dictatorship

For many of the West’s leaders, the Beijing model of enlightened autocracy is looking increasingly appealing