A review of Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok. A review of Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critial Theories and Debates since 1917 by Marcel van der Linden. An excerpt from Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War by Stephen Cohen. A review of What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David Murphy. More and more on The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown. Gal Beckerman reviews Orlando Figes's The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia. A review of Rethinking Marxism: from Kant and Hegel to Marx and Engels by Jolyon Agar. We would be better off taking a few doses of “vulgar” Marxism and preparing to join the transition from a post-political psuedo-left to the Next Left. Christopher Hitchens remembers Leszek Kolakowski (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). George Scialabba reviews Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese. The Soviets mandated health spa retreats for their workers, but sometimes people just want to enjoy a little quality time with their family. Little is left today of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War's most famous monument. Communist Clock: Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock in Prague.
