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Progress and Setbacks: The Development of Central and Eastern Europe since the End of Communism
There are so many myths and legends surrounding the collapse of communist totalitarianism, the nonviolent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the development since then. What has really chan… more →
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Progress and Setbacks: The Development of Central and Eastern Europe since the End of Communism
michaeloholmes wrote 2 months ago: There are so many myths and legends surrounding the collapse of communist totalitarianism, the nonvi … more →
George Orwell: Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Fascist and Anti-Stalinist
michaeloholmes wrote 3 months ago: Listen to two great and independent minds, Christopher Hitchens and Russ Roberts, talk about why Orw … more →
Can the Whole World Become Democratic?
michaeloholmes wrote 4 months ago: Watch Larry Diamond, co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and founding co-e … more →
The GDR - Big Brother Is Watching You
michaeloholmes wrote 6 months ago: One of the most frightening and sadening realities in today’s Germany is how many people justi … more →
Return to the Gulag
michaeloholmes wrote 8 months ago: Watch this impressing documentary about a man, who traces his father’s journey “through … more →
Larry Diamond - Reviving the Spirit of Democracy
michaeloholmes wrote 8 months ago: Watch Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-editor of the Journal of Democ … more →
Anna Politkovskaya and the War in Chechnya
michaeloholmes wrote 10 months ago: We don’t know who murdered Anna Politkovskaya, but we do know why. All her life, she was a str … more →
The USSR's Forgotten Famines
michaeloholmes wrote 10 months ago: Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty has a short documentary on some major tragedies, which are almost f … more →
The Power of Nonviolence
michaeloholmes wrote 11 months ago: Gene Sharp is no blue eyed pacifist or dogmatic utopian. But he believes in the power of nonviolence … more →
Why Socialism Can't Work
michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: There are many ways to explain why socialism has never worked and will never work. Listen to a very … more →
André Glucksmann on How to Understand Putin's Russia
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michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: André Glucksmann, a leading french antitotalitarian, explains to Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty wh … more →
Belarus - Europe's Last Outpost of Tyranny
michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: Watch or listen to this Cato – Policy Forum from 2006 on Lukashenko’s dictatorial rule i … more →
Europe's Disgrace - Again No Fair Elections in Belarus
michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: Once again! Charter 97 – OSCE observers didn’t recognise “elections” in Belarus Radio Liberty … more →
Belarus - "The Iron Fist Returns"
michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: Watch this Journeyman Pictures – documentary on oppression and democratic resistance in Belaru … more →
Putinism
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michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: Watch Anne Applebaum, author of the most important and well-researched book on the Gulag since Solsc … more →
Russia's Return to Authoritarian Rule
michaeloholmes wrote 1 year ago: Edward Lucas has been covering Eastern Europe and Russia for The Economist since 1986. In the Daily … more →
