Luck of the devil

The communist conquest of China in 1949 was one of the most consequential – and surprising – geopolitical events of the 20th century. It shifted the world’s most populous country from the western to t

worksinprogress.co “Time and again,” economic reformers in the former communist bloc tried to “introduce rationality” into economic planning with the aim of producing abundance, says Michael Hill. The

Memories of Maoism It’s 35 years since Jung ...

In January 1918, a few months after Lenin’s Bolsheviks had captured the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Rhoda Power left the house in Rostov-on-Don where she was employed as a governess and wandered throu

By attacking Iran, the U.S. has disrupted a second source of cheap oil to its biggest rival in a matter of weeks

We need to talk about Little Red Books and big red caps, about bombarding headquarters and attacking the deep state, and what happens when leaders of an authoritarian bent decide they know what’s best