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Hace 2 días · After visiting the Soviet Union in 1919, California journalist Lincoln Steffens proclaimed, “I have seen the future and it works,” a claim repeated by many Western luminaries during the 1930s, as Malcolm Muggeridge recalled in Chronicles of Wasted Time.
Hace 7 horas · Muggeridge himself was something of a fellow traveller until, as a newspaper correspondent in Moscow in the 1920s, he without permission journeyed to Ukraine to judge Stalin’s farmland collectivisation for himself. Moscow and its stupidities were bad enough but the famine and other horrors of Ukraine were too much. Muggeridge turned.
Hace 7 horas · Solzhenitsyn showed how the USSR didn’t work, except as a vast prison camp, and confirmed that the first Communist state was much worse than anybody imagined. In some quarters, the revelations ...
Hace 4 días · This is Evelyn Waugh’s manuscript draft, signed by him, of an amusing satirical article, originally written by Waugh for Punch but rejected by its editor Malcolm Muggeridge as libellous, and then published in the Spectator (8 July 1955).
Hace 5 días · Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark by Margaret Willes. Yale University Press, £20, 304 pages. The dead are interesting, even fascinating, but never nearly so much as ...
Hace 4 días · Muggeridge, Anna (2021) Women’s engagement in politics and public life in the Black Country, 1914-1951. PhD thesis, University of Worcester. Abstract. This thesis is about the ways in which Black Country women engaged in and with politics, and how this changed in the years following their enfranchisement.
Hace 2 días · From the launch event, June 25th 2024. Dr Petr Blažek, Director of The Museum of The 20th Century, in Prague, opening the exhibition Photographs by Orwell Society Chair, Quentin Kopp George Orwell and Karel Čapek
