Communism

In a best-selling manifesto, the Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty.

An erosion of trust between the government and its people now threatens the country’s decades-long boom.

The Hungarian writer’s fiction examines how silence—politically enforced or self-imposed—can warp and disfigure a life.

In 1989, a young Chinese academic spent six months travelling in the United States. His insights are now central to Xi Jinping’s cultural crackdown.

The director was radically original and daring, yet even his greatest films are extreme rarities in the U.S.

For seventy-four years, we had something good going here.

The pursuit and persecution of a young freethinker are revealed by way of the archives of the Romanian secret police.

On the centenary of the C.C.P., a scholar examines the roots of Xi Jinping’s authoritarianism.

Historic protests across the island cast doubt on the regime’s staying power.

Beijing reverts to a belief that paranoia and suspicion are the best policies.

After the Russian Revolution, a host of activists saw Communism as the way to end European imperialism. Their diverse fates provide an unexpected key to Asian politics.

Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs, the Castro brothers are gone from the main stage, and Cuba is a threadbare place facing an uncertain future.

Fernando Barral spent his life trying to be a model Communist, only to be stymied by Party commissars.

The new President has used her extraordinary pulpit, in her small country and on the continent, to demand transparency and justice and to create hope.

Arthur Koestler’s novel of the Moscow Trials laid bare the gulf between Communist ideals and the reality they produced.

Hobsbawm, perhaps the world’s most renowned historian, saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

Though the series is set in a previous century and intended to provide a transporting distraction from real life, its stories have tapped into contemporary China’s most urgent preoccupations.