While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

The West as a block of liberal democracies no longer exists. The Western world blossomed after 1945, a reaction to a pair of totalitarian systems: National Socialism and Stalinism. Hitler’s Reich ...

MAGA adherents deny and dismiss what they are a part of, but they believe Trump’s lies, and will support him until the end.

In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing ...

In the same hallway, you might see a student who looks 9 walking next to one who looks 19. One carries a cartoon lunchbox; ...

Here is something that may surprise you. Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader killed in September by an Israeli airstrike, ...

Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate?

Animal Farm, a modern east fable attacking Stalinism, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his nightmare vision of the ultimate totalitarian bureaucracy. Orwell believed that any orthodoxy, when taken to its ...

The Gates of Kyiv explores the friendship between the composer and the pianist Maria Yuduna – and the horrors of Stalinism.

M. Butterfly, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican ★★☆☆☆ Puccini’s opera Madam Butterfly is such a ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

The JVP/NPP’s preparation to ban all strikes is a clear expression of the fascistic character of its program, which has ...