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Ideas: Admitting to the evils of communism...
...Archipelago was a critical event for the French left. His searing expose of the vast Soviet prison-camp system, which sold 600,000 copies in France in less than a year, inspired a cadre of ex-radicals eventually known as "The New Philosophers" to issue its own critiques of communism. In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront the idea that Marxism was inherently corrupt...
...Saturday that market evaporated when the company folded up shop, and shares that had dropped from a high of $62 to 50 cents last week were worthless. A regularly scheduled meeting of the Cabinet was devoted almost entirely to the most dramatic financial scandal since the fall of communism...
...between 1925 and 1945, Generations moves from disaster to disaster as despotic communism devours its own and Germany attacks and destroys millions more. Members of the Gradov family, led by Dr. Boris Nikitovich, make their separate ways through history. Aksyonov impressively spreads out a panorama of suffering, but he overlays it with shameless melodrama, unconvincing uplift and grotesque humor. Readers who sling their hammock, move their samovar onto their veranda and settle down for an old-fashioned summer read may be distracted by a narrative farrago that includes a scene in which Dr. Gradov nearly wins the Order of Lenin...
...past few months, Zhirinovsky has tempered his message in an attempt to broaden his base of appeal. Specifically, the Liberal Democratic Party targets disgruntled military officers, the new commercial merchant class and the middle-aged, all of whom Communism left high and dry. Supposedly, Zhirinovsky's LDP has met with considerable success over the past few months, and with the Russian political balance so historically unstable, many voices sound the alarm...