Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Anne Applebaum. Doubleday, 2017. 496 pages. “ It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham
Poland celebrates its National Independence Day on November 11, the anniversary of the armistice ending War War I. That day commemorates the restoration of sovereignty to the Polish people
The Bolshevik Revolution was one of the epochal events of modern history, continuing to affect the world in which we live 28 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Modern governments and
It’s always astounding to hear people who reject God, and most of His major teachings, lecture believers on the proper understanding of the Bible. We could say that French writer Falk Van
The Russian Revolution: a New Story. Sean McMeekin. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 496 pages. I am writing this review of in a downtown Moscow hotel, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the
A long list of the rich and famous including Lewis Hamilton, Bono, and the Queen, have been named by the BBC as having used “tax havens” following the latest leak of information from an
Today – November 7, 1917 – marks the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, touching off worldwide events mourning or celebrating the event. At its centenary, Communism deserves to
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The deepest division running through the West is not between Right and Left, or liberty and collectivism. Western civilization must choose this day whether it is grounded in a covenant or a
Labour and the Gulag: Russia and the Seduction of the British Left. Giles Udy. London: Biteback Publishing, 2017. 688 pages. When was the date of guilty knowledge for defenders of Soviet
More than a week after the Czech Republic’s elections, the nation’s political future remains murky. The election of charismatic billionaire Andrej Babiš is another example of populism’s
Polish innovators have launched an initiative to proclaim Saint Maximilian Kolbe the patron saint of entrepreneurs. They have created a petition for the pope to name this great Catholic