Tag Archives: totalitarianism

Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause

Posted on March 15, 2020 by leslie

Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause Frank Ellis celebrates a defeat for censorship Green eyes cut the heart without a knife (Vasilii Grossman) I. Introduction: For a Just Cause or Stalingrad? Outside the circle of people who concern themselves with Grossman’s work … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cultural Matters, Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home | Tagged For a Just Cause, Holodomor, Katyn Massacre, Life and Fate, Maxim Gorky, Molotov, Robert Chandler, Stalin, totalitarianism, Vasilii Grossman | 2 Comments

Canada, Matrix of Modernity

Posted on July 2, 2017 by leslie

Canada, Matrix of Modernity On the Sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation, Mark Wegierski considers the emergence of the “managerial-therapeutic regime” The Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) of Canadian Confederation is being celebrated in 2017 (July 1). Nevertheless, it is clear that Canada today … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home | Tagged Canada, George Orwell, George Parkin Grant, immigration, James Burnham, Justin Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, totalitarianism | 3 Comments

Evil in the east – communism’s European legacy

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Derek Turner

Evil in the east – communism’s European legacy FRANK ELLIS finds much to admire in a survey of postwar communist totalitarianism Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, London, 2012, xxxix + pp.498, maps, photos, … Continue reading →