“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.
The paradoxes of Cuba
Interview with a former comandante in Cuba, 2003. Article by Isabella Thomas.
Stasi colonel uniform
Uniform of a colonel in the Stasi, the East German secret police force.
Porcelain bust of Lenin
A Soviet biscuit porcelain bust of Lenin, made in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in the 1950s.
Soviet Union poster: prison for the heart and mind
Anti-Christian Soviet propaganda poster depicting a nun who appears to be imprisoned by her religion while, outside, there is a sunlit, golden world.
