All Posts Tagged With: "Lenin"

Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II

It is difficult for many of us to understand the almost euphoric enthusiasm with which millions of Europeans marched off to war in the summer of 1914. For almost a century the people of Europe had, in general, lived through an amazing time in which living standards for practically everyone reached heights never before known [...]

9Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 3 comments | Continued

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 | Continued

Two Decades Since the Fall

Perspective Two Decades Since the Fall On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall effectively ceased to exist. Remember the sequence: Communist Hungary started letting people pass into Austria and to freedom. Captives of the Soviet bloc left in droves. East Germans, too—thousands of them. The Hungarian government tried to stanch the flow, but the dam [...]

23Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | Continued

Book Reviews – November 2007

  • Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

    by Robert Gellately Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Depression, War, and Cold War
    by Robert Higgs Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr.
  • Great Philanthropic Mistakes
    by Timothy Sandefur Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • Elements of Justice
    by David Schmidtz Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
1Nov2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2002/3

While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]

1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued

The Unknown Lenin, From the Secret Archive, edited by Richard Pipes

Yale University Press • 1996 • xi-xx + 204 pages • $27.50 Dr. Fuhrmann, who teaches Russian history at Murray State University, is the author of Rasputin: A Life (Praeger, 1990). It has been inspiring to watch the opening up of Russian archives since the collapse of the USSR. Foreigners now have access to documents [...]

1Jul1997 | FEE Admin | 2 comments | Continued

No Rights without Property Rights

Reading between the lines of the news stories from Russia, or rather the commentaries on the news, one detects a note of hopefulness. Perhaps, they seem to say, the demotion of Stalin portends a measure of freedom for the Russian people. Admitting that a controlled economy is undesirable, is brutality a necessary concomitant of it? [...]

1Oct1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | Continued
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