[…] the USSR launch its own initiatives for a new international order, designed to bring lasting world peace and prosperity. In 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proposed a ‘common European home’. This replaced the ‘Two Camps’ doctrine, 2 which held that the world was divided into socialist […]
[…] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]
[…] fragments keep cropping up. The latest is the report from New Zealand that their Security and Intelligence Service recruited the former general secretary of the New Zealand Communist Paper, Victor Wilcox in the mid-1980s.6 Significant if not decisive By asking for a ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence, Knightley is asking for too much. Even […]
[PDF file]: […] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[PDF file]: […] than they admit in public. Behind the conservative is the proto-fascist (the fascist menace). In the mirror image, behind the social democrat is the revolutionary left (the communist menace).3 As well as being a reflexive response, ‘contamination’ or anathematization is a tactic used by the left (and right) to attack opponents; and, within their […]
[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]
[PDF file]: […] said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate something of the old Soviet bloc, replacing Communist ideology with Greater Russian chauvinism. This campaign has been characterised by determination to reverse what are seen as the humiliations of the Yeltsin era and to […]
[PDF file]: […] the USSR launch its own initiatives for a new international order, designed to bring lasting world peace and prosperity. In 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proposed a ‘common European home’. This replaced the ‘Two Camps’ doctrine, 2 which held that the world was divided into socialist […]
