Indonesia’s Unmourned Communists
A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
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Our Hilarious Overlords
What's so funny about backstabbing, brutality and mass murder? Quite a lot.
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A Nation Like All Others: Gershom Scholem and the Paradox of Zionism
How one people’s “independence” became another’s catastrophe.
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The Kremlin Ball
Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte's masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
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Revolutionary Bandits
A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
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