The russian album
In 1997, the famous Canadian historian compiled, from a photo album, the history of his aristocratic, landowning family in Tsarist Russia. His grandfather, Paul Ignatieff, was Minister of Education under...
Marxism
Origin of Russian Communism
For Berdyaev, the problem with communism is that it seeks to become a new religion with unassailable dogmas—therefore implacable in its repression of "heresy"—and whose main article of faith would be Marx’s...
Gorbachev
Gorbachev continues, even after all these years, to attract interest. He was faced with difficult and uncertain times, with many open fronts that did not rule out a confrontation—even nuclear—between blocs...
Kilometer 101
A brilliant selection of short stories and essays by one of today's great Russian writers.
In the Soviet Union, the rights of those who had served sentences for political crimes were severely...
Live Not by Lies. A Manual for Christian Dissidents
In this book, Rod Dreher acts as a loudspeaker for Eastern European dissidents, who warn us of the not-so-distant danger that the West is heading towards a "soft totalitarianism", based more on...
To the Finland Station. A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Edmund Wilson published the history of revolutionary Marxism in 1940, just at the beginning of World War II, when the only reference of the new social experiment was the Soviet Union. Later, in 1971, he...
We the Living
Ayn Rand (Russia, 1905 - USA, 1982), known for her atheism and liberalism, which led her to formulate a radical critique of Soviet reality. As she herself states, it is a novel about man against the State,...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Real and incredible story. Very enjoyable. Perhaps some paragraphs of the book devoted to the history of Japan and Korea may be too long, but you can skip them. Disappearance of dozens of Japanese citizens...
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
This is a long work (of over a 1000 pages) tracing the history of the Russian revolution from 1917 through to the death of Stalin in 1953. It does this through the medium of the large apartment block in...
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Updated and expanded edition of a previous book in which Prof. Roger Scruton analyzes the main thinkers of the new left. He has selected for his study authors as Hobsbaw, Thompson, Galbraigth, Sartre,...