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...Navasky, whose previous book, Naming Names, was an acclaimed history of the Hollywood blacklist, is far more effective and entertaining in chronicling the brawls "between liberals and radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time...
Bird and Sherwin’s praiseworthy account reveals Oppenheimer as a man tortured from within and hounded from without, a sad victim of both anti-Communism and good old-fashioned revenge...
...Given our emphasis on putting people first, I found it more practical to be humane, give my staff more benefits, increase their incomes and to solve their problems such as housing, employment, schooling, health and social insurance instead of merely talking about the usefulness of Communism." ?For a media official
...Warsaw Pact; many viewed the defeat of Nazism as simply a change of occupier. "We cannot pretend that May 9 was a day of liberty and independence for Poland," said Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's center-right Platforma Obywatelska. "For Poland the fight against Hitlerism and communism ended only in 1989." Rather than V-E day, Poles are more likely to recall the 1940 massacre of over 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn, in western Russia, a crime that Moscow acknowledged only in the Gorbachev era. Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga says she's going to Moscow...
...book, “A Normal Country: Russia After Communism,” Shleifer’s vociferous defense of the application of laissez-faire economics to post-Soviet Russia culminates in a daring claim—that, thanks to shock therapy, Russia is now a “normal country.” He does not hide the fact that he is taking on deeply entrenched popular wisdom in the United States; indeed, he revels...