Mao with Lin Biao – desk ornament
Mao found Lin Biao useful when he began the Cultural Revolution. Lin Biao was key to getting the army behind Mao.
Vlad reputation
Many young people admire Lenin. Should they? By James Bartholomew. Article.
What do you think of Lenin?
We asked people what they think of Lenin and then got the views of his biographer, Victor Sebestyen.
Escape from North Korea: event with a defector – Ji Hyun Park.
Ji Hyun Park escaped twice from North Korea. James Bartholomew gives an introduction about North Korea and then interviews Ji Hyun about life in North Korea and how she escaped to China.
“Even the grass was bourgeois” – Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution.
Interview with Jung Chang, author of ‘Wild Swans’, about her own and her family’s experience of communist rule in China.
Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution
Interview with Jung Chang, author of ‘Wild Swans’, about her own and her family’s experience of communist rule in China.
Eastern Europe: the British Connection
The little-known story of how a group of Britons made trips to communist Eastern Europe, smuggling in books and doing all they could to support persecuted intellectuals.
”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” – how it came to be published.
Giles Udy, historian and expert on the Gulag, tells the remarkable story of how this book came to be published in the Soviet Union.
The extraordinary experiences of Amei Li in the Cultural Revolution
Interview with the author of “Pink Flower – Growing Up in Mao’s China” by Zoom, 27th July 2022.
If Sister Nijolė can be happy, so can you
Life lessons from a Lithuanian nun who fought communism. Article by James Bartholomew originally published in The Spectator online on 14th November 2022.
