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In the early 1920s, Ludwig von Mises pointed out that "socialism is the watchword of our day. The socialist idea dominates the modem spirit. The masses approve of it; it has set its seal ...
Russia's Secret Rulers: How the Government and the Criminal Mafia Exercise Their Power
by Lev Timofeyev (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992); 177 pages; $21.00.
The Soviet Union was a harsh taskmaster for those who were interested in truth and were ...
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The world is watching the spectacle of Russia and the other captive nations of the former Soviet Union trying to free themselves from their seventy-five-year experiment in socialism. The bankruptcy of the system is ...
Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel
by Vladimir Tismaneanu (New York: The Free Press, 1992); 312 pages; $24.95.
Europe lasted for more than four decades. And each of the communist regimes constructed in ...
In 1819, the French classical liberal, Benjamin Constant, delivered a lecture in Paris entitled, "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Modems." He drew his audience's attention to the fact that in the world of ancient ...
In 1819, the French classical liberal, Benjamin Constant, delivered a lecture in Paris entitled, "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Modems." He ...
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
by Charles J. Sykes (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992); 289 pages; $22.95.
One of the reasons that socialism came to have such a great appeal to many in the 19th ...
During the dark days of Nazi collectivism in Europe, the German economist Wilhelm Röpke used the haven of neutral Switzerland for continuing to write and lecture on the moral and economic principles of ...
Laogai—The Chinese Gulag
by Hongda Harry Wu (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, Inc., 1992); 247 pages; $34.95.
The world has marveled for over ten years at the economic progress in communist China. The collective farms ...
Since the collapse of the communist governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the West has basked in the glory of the triumph of democracy and capitalism over dictatorship and socialism. ...
