To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism; By Sean McMeekin; Basic Books; 544 pp., $35.00 To Overthrow the World explains how this came to pass. Far from being a relic of the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Egan-Jones released a new commentary analyzing how forms of capitalistic communism are reshaping global markets and challenging long held economic assumptions, ...

The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's guest says no, writing that, "Far from dead, Communism as a governing template ...

In 1797, as the revolution in France cooled down following the Reign of Terror, François-Noël “Gracchus” Babeuf stood trial for organizing a putsch against the governing directorate running Paris at ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sean McMeekin, Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, to discuss his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and ...

The publisher is to be commended for giving us this work of real scholarship about a subject that has become dominated by Communist sympathizers. As he writes in the early pages, “The real secret of ...

Industrial policies drive economies apart, open up new opportunities for corruption, and have a tendency to last longer than necessary, according to the bank that was established to help Europe ...

Whenever the foreign news is especially depressing, I like to reminisce about the halcyon days of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin wall so memorably illustrated the collapse of Communist tyranny in ...

Nearly 80 years later, and more than a few decades since the utter collapse of the once-mighty Soviet Union, President Trump should deliver a similar message to our national legislators; however, this ...