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He Stood with Giants

Gennadi Sosonko's intimate personal knowledge of the Soviet Union's greatest grandmasters is unrivaled — and he was a useful player himself

March 25, 2013

Chess·Communism

Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain

Anne Applebaum's magisterial Iron Curtain tells the largely untold story of Eastern Europe's suppression at the hands of the Soviets after the Second World War

September 25, 2012

Books·Communism·Europe·History

Collusion in Curaçao

In 1962 Bobby Fisher claimed "the Russians have fixed world chess". He was certainly paranoid but was proved to be partially right

June 27, 2012

Chess·Communism

Bouquets and Barbed Wire

Orlando Figes's Just Send Me the Word conveys the enduring love of a couple whose incarceration in Stalin's gulags couldn't suppress

April 24, 2012

Books·Communism·History

Editorial image for "The Red Roots of Folk Music" — Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics.

Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies have things to teach us about community music

September 27, 2011

Communism·Critique·Music·UK Politics

Democratic Disenchantment

Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller

August 30, 2011

Books·Communism

Romanticising Rosa

The Left must abstain from lionizing the life and work of the Polish-born German Marxist martyr, Rosa Luxemburg

March 29, 2011

Communism·Counterpoints·Germany·History

Havana: The Castros Will Not Be Absolved

"Cuba is decaying at a scandalous pace, physically and morally. The social capital of civil values and mutual trust has evaporated and hatred is taking hold"

March 19, 2010

Communism·Dispatches·Latin America·Welfare State

Swallowing the Party Line

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

June 25, 2009

Books·Communism·Espionage·Literature·Russia

Exile on Jermyn Street

Blacklisted by Hollywood, my father Carl Foreman made a new life in Britain. But he never forsook the country of his birth, says Jonathan Foreman Funerals feel more natural in the winter.

June 23, 2009

Communism·Features·Film·US Politics