China’s role in Soviet policy-making
Why should we want to read yet another book about the collapse of the Soviet empire? In To Run the World, Sergey Radchenko attempts an answer
Maoism
Wednesday
Saturday
Why Cambodia is the best country in the world
The landscape is agreeably green, the jungles are often untouched, the islands can be Edenic
Thursday
The forgotten victims of communism
I just read a piece by Scott McConnell in the American Conservative, a magazine we co-founded 18 years ago. He writes about how the victims of communism are less commemorated than those of fascism. The death toll under communism was 100 million (see the Black Book of Communism). And as the mass murders continued, your Cambridge Joseph Needhams and his fellow apologists insisted that Maoism represented mankind’s best hope. Maoism never received the moral obloquy that Nazism did. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which documents the horrific enormity of the Nazi project, has had 40 million visitors since 1993; the victims of communism are marked by a ten-foot statue
