Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism by Robert Harvey
In this episode we feature a key primer into the history of communist thought and revolution, the reality of its promise through the lived experience of those under its yoke and, most importantly, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the elites who, usually through violent physical and psychological coercion at individual and societal levels, imposed their will upon millions of people to little benefit other than to themselves.
Author Harvey, a prolific author and journalist and former UK Conservative M.P., serves us up a heady brew - a tangled historical web deftly unravelled for the reader; critical doctrinal, social, technical and geopolitical aspects of the story simply explained; and all this wrapped up in galloping, urgent narrative and a deft eye for character. Highly recommended.
YouTube is full of great archive footage and documentaries on this subject. Check out period pieces like • Rise of the Communism | 1905-1961 | D... on The Best Film Archives channel.
Douglas Murray is an author I much admire. His review of Vassily Grossman's novel Life and Fate raises some important points about the nature of totalitarianism of one form or another https://unherd.com/2020/01/what-unite....
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