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Gulag: A History
Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the tsarist regime had used the vast area that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific and Arctic Oceans as a place of exile and forced labor [...]
7Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Soviet Chamber of Horrors: Reminders on the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution
In 1842 the German poet Heinrich Heine warned that “Communism, though little discussed now and loitering in the hidden garrets on miserable straw pallets, is the dark hero destined for a great, if temporary, role in the modern tragedy. . . . Wild, gloomy times are roaring toward us. . . . The future smells [...]
1Nov2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2007
- Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
by Nicolas Werth Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace
by Martin Fridson Reviewed by Robert Batemarco
- Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt’s Legacy
by Jim Powell Reviewed by John V. Denson
- Great Philanthropic Mistakes
by Martin Morse Wooster Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Oct2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued
Book Reviews – September 2007
- The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements
by Lynne Viola Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- In our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
by Charles Murray Reviewed by Michael Tanner
- Actual Ethics
by James R. Otteson Reviewed by Tibor Machan
- Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
by Paul Moreno Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Sep2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued
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