Tag Archives: Communism

Book Review: One Miracle After Another

Posted on July 7, 2021 by nathanalbright

One Miracle After Another: The Pavel Goia Story, by Greg Budd In reading this book, which is about a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor I have heard online before, I was reminded, as I often am, of other books that I have … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Young Heroes Of The Soviet Union

Posted on December 11, 2020 by nathanalbright

Young Heroes Of The Soviet Union: A Memoir And A Reckoning, by Alex Halberstadt This is not a very good memoir, nor is the author nearly insightful enough to provide reckoning about anything. There is a great gulf between what … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hermit In Paris

Posted on November 10, 2020 by nathanalbright

Hermit In Paris: Autobiographical Writings, by Italo Calvino There is a moment in this book where the author fails to realize what an ominous sign a mishandled rhetorical question is. The essay in question is “Was I A Stalinist Too?” … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Russian Civil War

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Russian Civil War, by Evan Mawdsley In many ways, reading this book is sort of like the opposite experience of reading about the experience of the American or Spanish or Finnish Civil Wars, for example. In those latter two … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The White Generals

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

The White Generals:  An Account Of The White Movement And The Russian Civil War, by Richard Luckett Any time we deal with the past there is the question of the inevitability of the past.  In retrospect, we know that the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Memoirs Of A Bolshevik

Posted on August 31, 2020 by nathanalbright

Memoirs Of A Bolshevik, by O. Piatnitsky In reading this short book, where the author proudly displays his misguided loyalty to Lenin and his devotion to Communist revolutionary politics, a nagging feeling came to me that for sure this author … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Great Thoughts Of China

Posted on July 15, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Great Thoughts Of China:  3,000 Years Of Wisdom That Shaped A Civilization, by Liang Congjie This is not a book that I exactly hated to read, seeing as I greatly appreciate the wisdom of Chinese thinking.  That said, this … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bloodstained

Posted on July 5, 2020 by nathanalbright

Bloodstained:  One Hundred Years Of Leninist Counterrevolution, edited by the Friends of Aron Baron It should be stated at the outset that I am not a friend of Aron Baron nor am I supportive of leftist anarchists at all.  My … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Spanish Civil War (Ranzato)

Posted on June 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Spanish Civil War, by Gabrielle Ranzato You know a book about the Spanish Civil War is not going to be any good when it is part of a Traveller’s history series and views the rapine and theft and violence … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Naked Communist

Posted on June 13, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Naked Communist, by W. Cleon Skousen Having heard that this book was a terrible propaganda volume written about communism, I was disappointed in reading this work to only find trivially obvious truth about the behavior of Marx, American Communists, … Continue reading →

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