What do you think of Lenin?

What do you think of Lenin?

We asked people what they think of Lenin and then got the views of his biographer, Victor Sebestyen.

How communism was enforced in Bulgaria

Innocent people about to be executed – The Great Terror in the Soviet Union

Escape from North Korea: event with a defector – Ji Hyun Park.

Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution

The extraordinary experiences of Amei Li in the Cultural Revolution

How the uprising against Nicolae Ceaușescu began – Zoom event with Zsolt Szilagyi

Beatings and torture: the Securitate response to the beginning of the revolt against Communist rule

How Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s book, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, came to be published.

The extraordinary story of how a peaceful pastor provided the spark which led to the overthrow of Ceaușescu

What was it like in the Gulag? Interview with a survivor

Love in the Gulag

What was it like to be caught up in the Cultural Revolution? Amy Li ‘s experience of the Red Guards

One of the last remaining survivors of the Gulag

Three escape attempts from Communist Hungary

What was life like under Communism? The story of a Hungarian

Imprisoned and beaten at nine years old

The man who could not believe Marks & Spencer was open to the public

Inside the Stasi prison in East Berlin

Was there resistance to the Communist regime in Romania?

Witold Pilecki – a man who risked his life resisting both the Nazis and the Communists