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The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single...

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No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...

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Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...

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You have theoreticians who say, "The U.S. must stop the process of nuclear armament. We have enough ...

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That Marxism is not a science is entirely clear to intelligent people in the Soviet Union. One would...

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In actual fact our Russian experience—when I use the word "Russian" I always differentiate it from t...

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Of course in the present situation the Communists have to use various disguises. Sometimes we hear w...

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And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to wi...

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...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

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It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half...

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This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was di...

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Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

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I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist ...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

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Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

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The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

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David RemnickLenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...

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A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that te...

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For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Tr...

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In the Soviet Union you weren’t allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot sp...

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Kalle LasnCulture Jam: How To Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulti...

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Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its struct...

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Masha GessenThe Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

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Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too c...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

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As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but ...

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