Communism

The far-left celebrity broadcaster’s vision of the future falls into the same traps as all his fellow Marxists

A true revolutionary who showed his moral superiority over Communism by his magnanimity in victory

The surprising story of Britain’s first animated feature, Animal Farm

Paul Preston’s exhaustive and admirable biography shines light on Santiago Carrillo, a relatively unknown figure, who played a key role in the restoration of Spanish democracy

In his epic novel ‘The Tower’ Uwe Tellkamp brilliantlydepicts the grotesque idiosyncrasies of the GDR’s bureaucracy

‘If the Chinese have shown cynical duplicity towards Hong Kong’s democrats, the British have been guilty of self-delusion’

The Keeper of the Queen’s Pictures and Soviet spy sought out kindred spirits among artists who, like him, had lived double lives

A personal reminiscence of the Nobel laureate, whose anti-apartheid novels masked her own ruthless ideology

Roger Scruton’s Notes from Underground is a loving portrait of the beauty and desolation of Communist-era Prague

That elusive sense of a homeland, Heimat, Mounk found only when he was free not to feel Jewish