Twentieth-century totalitarianism depended on man-gods. Lenin was worshipped as not only spiritually immortal, as Mayakovsky suggested in his poem, but as materially immortal, zombified and on display ...

Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist ...

Finally, Russians are considering burying Vladimir Lenin. Since his death in 1924, the Bolshevik leader’s embalmed body has been lying in a glass coffin in a mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square. For many ...

THE WEEK that just ended, 27th January, was bracketed by two anniversaries in the history of 20th-century totalitarianism. Sunday was the centennial of the death of Vladimir Lenin. The architect of ...

Sidney Hook, philosophy professor at New York University, has published in the current Partisan Review an article on “The Future of Socialism.” He has some interesting points to make on the ...