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  • Viktor Chernomyrdin, the jowly, stolid Soviet apparatchik who founded the world's biggest gas company as the Soviet Union was teetering and helped guide Russia through years of chaos following communism's collapse, died Wednesday.

    World Watch 2010

  • Instead, Feldman opines that it was communism's "powerful critique of the social inequities of the capitalist system ... that made the Communist Party so threatening to the established order."

    Michael Roth: Review of Jay Feldman's Manufacturing Hysteria Michael Roth 2011

  • Janine is a social anthropologist who studied the mechanisms of power there both before and after communism, and she recalls the officials she interviewed in communism's aftermath who gave her two, three, or even more cards bearing different job titles.

    Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite: Will The Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010

  • Tinged with ironic humor, fired with calls for spiritual renewal, the book is a monumental unmasking of Soviet communism's horrors.

    Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing Martin E. Marty 2011

  • Janine is a social anthropologist who studied the mechanisms of power there both before and after communism, and she recalls the officials she interviewed in communism's aftermath who gave her two, three, or even more cards bearing different job titles.

    Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite : Will the Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010

  • For months, critics have condemned the hearing -- comparing it to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the hearings on communism's influence in America led by Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

    Peter King hearings: Was anything accomplished? (POLL) 2011

  • Bush 41 warned of a new era of "despotism" and "suicidal nationalism" in communism's wake, and he pressed to keep the Soviet Union together.

    The Arab Spring Is Still Alive Matthew Kaminski 2011

  • By the end of the 1960s he had become convinced of communism's moral decadence.

    The Lost Century Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011

  • Through the 1990s, she was a regular on television, always at one demonstration or another, having shifted her critique from communism's repression to the West's excesses.

    Remembering Baerbel Bohley, an artist who helped bring down the Berlin Wall Marc Fisher 2010

  • Janine is a social anthropologist who studied the mechanisms of power there both before and after communism, and she recalls the officials she interviewed in communism's aftermath who gave her two, three, or even more cards bearing different job titles.

    Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite: Will The Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010

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