Book Review

 

Where is Home? The Paradoxes and Potential of the Latvian diaspora

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#AntiCommunism : Rita Laima’s new memoir, Skylarks & Rebels, chronicles her unique personal story, and in so doing, captures the trajectory of Latvian history and grapples with the crises of identity faced by all exiles and émigrés. Laima was born in the United States to Latvian parents who were forced to flee their country’s postwar..
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Shop Steward of the Free World: The Story of Lane Kirkland

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#AntiCommunism : Lane Kirkland: Champion of American Labor. Arch Puddington. John Wiley & Sons Inc. $23. “Most of those present here today are workers. Creative workers. And I myself, having spent many years of my life as a stone cutter, as a foundryman, as a manual worker, in the name of all who have shared..
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Capturing the Captive Mind: Darkness at Noon and its Impact

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#AntiCommunism : Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon is well-known today as a classic of political and psychological fiction that did much to form the image of communism in the minds of readers in the US and around the world. It is both a political novel and an existential one. The plot of the novel concerns..
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The Pen that Toppled an Empire: Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago

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#AntiCommunism : In the 1838 play The Conspiracy, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s character Cardinal Richelieu first coined the famous line, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” The adage is familiar to our ears and sounds convincing. Someone who has had the experience of sitting with pen and paper as armed security officers broke through the door..
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