USSR
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
Strange happenings back in the USSR
The brilliant story of a Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
George Miller: Anti-Communist
30 years on from the Moscow Coup, Gerald Frost remembers the man bent on bringing down the Soviet Union
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
The 21st century Bolshevik
Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval
When did the Cold War actually start?
Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart
The brutal purging of God
Giles Udy on Godless Utopia by Roland Elliott Brown
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
