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Jan 13, 2025 | 
realcleardefense.com | Sean McMeekin
Sean Mcmeekin The Wall Street Journal January 13, 2025 The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have avoided his downfall? Read Full Article » Show comments Hide Comments Related Articles
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
wsj.com | Sean McMeekin
More than a century after the Russian Revolution, the downfall of the Romanov dynasty continues to fascinate and enthrall. The story itself, broadly familiar from popular treatments over the years, is well told by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.” But Mr. Hasegawa is no ordinary chronicler.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl | Sean McMeekin
Choć Polskę i Europę Wschodnią spotkał straszny los, najtrwalszą konsekwencją zwycięstw Stalina odniesionych w 1945 r. był impet, jaki nadały one komunistycznej ekspansji w Azji, przede wszystkim w Chinach. Co prawda Stalin na mocy porozumienia chińsko-radzieckiego z 14 sierpnia 1945 r. zgodził się uznać narodowy rząd Czang Kaj-szeka i przyznać mu formalną kontrolę polityczną nad Mandżurią – dodajmy, że układ ten był początkowo uważany przez Mao Tse-tunga i chińskich komunistów za zdradę.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
businessandamerica.com | Sean McMeekin
Files should be open to the public unless otherwise specified, not secret by default. We have a right to know what our government does. Source link
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Sean McMeekin
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thefederalist.com | Sean McMeekin
Early in his third presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to “declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power.” The phrase “Truth and Reconciliation” recalls bodies established to investigate abuses by toppled Communist regimes such as East Germany’s, or the former apartheid government of South Africa.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Theodore Dalrymple |William Voegeli |Michael Anton |Sean McMeekin
Just as the war in Ukraine called forth many people’s inner military strategist, so the COVID-19 pandemic called forth many people’s inner epidemiologist. Never before had medical statistics been examined by so many with such close attention. People started to look at the numbers of daily deaths in the obsessive way that traders look at stock prices.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Sean McMeekin
According to McMeekin, communist parties have been able to gain and hold power because they were aided by outside forces. Lenin’s Bolsheviks were dependent on Germany for financial and military support. Western investors were responsible for much of the Soviet Union’s industrialization, and the Red Army in World War II was reliant on American equipment. Tito’s victory in Yugoslavia was due to airlifted American and British supplies.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Sean McMeekin |Rachel Lu |James Hankins |Rebecca Burgess
A quarter-century ago, most Westerners assumed that communism was all but dead. A few stragglers (notably China) still clung to the label, but these were seen as the final foot-draggers, already in the process of shedding their repressive ways. Free and democratic societies were the new norm. The prevailing sentiment of the day was expressed very memorably in Joshua Muravchik’s 2002 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
quillette.com | David Cohen |Sean McMeekin |Andrew Hartz |Paul Berman
In the department of non-news, the recent revelation that Bruce Springsteen has moved from E Street to Easy Street and joined the billionaire ranks of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney deserves a tick. Yes, the working-class hero from New Jersey may now have the disposable cash to buy a highway fit for broken heroes, but his reviews have long been worth a billion bucks as well. This year marks the anniversary of the first and most influential of those notices.
