24 Sep 2021 - 1:00am

East Germany’s bitter lessons for Cuba Those looking forward to a happy new capitalist age may find themselves disappointed

Katja Hoyer

26.08

What modern feminism is hiding Does Amia Srinivasan believe the orthodoxies that fill her new book?

Mary Harrington

24.08

Young Russians love Stalin Everyone gets rehabilitated eventually

Daniel Kalder

03.08

America has become its own worst enemy Like the Soviet Union, the US is dying from despair

Ed West

26.07

Why we love to hate Imagine John Lennon's nakedly idealist hymn is easy to deride

Dorian Lynskey

20.07

The castrated will inherit the earth Vast numbers of Russians believed self-mutilation would trigger the resurrection

Daniel Kalder

06.07

Teach our kids about communism Conservatives want us to learn about the red menace

Daniel Kalder

01.07

China’s Communist Party owes it all to colonialism President Xi's centennial celebrations forget the CCP's debt to imperial powers

Bill Hayton

11.05

How I fell for the USSR As a child I was my father's little Red comrade

Julie Burchill

14.04

How Hitler killed the Devil In a world without God, the Führer is the ultimate benchmark of morality

Tom Holland

30.03

What if Reagan had been murdered? A successful assassination attempt could have precipitated an eternal Cold War

Dominic Sandbrook

20.03

The populist spirit of the Paris Commune One hundred and fifty years ago, revolutionaries were far more interested in democracy than feminism and Marx

Robert Tombs