5 episodes
Museum of Communist Terror museumofcommunistterror
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The Museum of Communist Terror aims to keep alive knowledge and understanding of the deaths, terror and economic failure that took place under Communist regimes, primarily in the 20th century. The strategy is to do this through social media, videos, podcasts, the website, talks and films for schools and universities, events and the creation of a full-size museum in London. We are recording video interviews with people who have experienced Communist rule and acquiring exhibits for the proposed museum.
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”Even the grass was bourgeois” - Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution.
Interview with Jung Chang, author of ’Wild Swans’, about her own and her family’s experience of communist rule in China. Jung Chang’s book ”Wild Swans” was an international best-seller with sales of over 13 million copies. In this interview, Jung Chang describes how her communist party parents became disenchanted in the Cultural Revolution and were cruelly mistreated. How Mao declared that even grass was ’bourgeois’.
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”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” - how it came to be published.
One of the most influential books ever written about Communism and its history was ”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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How the uprising against Nicolae Ceausescu began.
This is the remarkable story of how one pastor set off a chain of events that led to the downfall of a communist dictator.
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What millenials should know about Communism
"What millenials should know about Communism" - Talk by James Bartholomew at the Sydney Institute in October 2018.
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Importing Class War - the unknown story of the Soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939
Talk by Roger Moorhouse, author of 'First To Fight', London, November 2019.