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Hoover Digest by topic: Communism

April 26, 2013

Misplaced Trust

April 26, 2013

Turning Points

January 25, 2013

The Ever-Useful Mob

mannequins
Image credit: German Federal Archives

Beware of “spontaneous” outrage and the temptation to appeasement. By Yuri Yarim-Agaev.

January 25, 2013

Mission to Moscow

woman with Starbucks drinks
Image credit: Taylor Jones

The czars and commissars alike are long gone. Moscow has almost become a normal European city. By Norman M. Naimark.

October 26, 2012

Red Tales

Imitate it, destroy it, trade with it? In the years after the Bolshevik revolution, the West didn’t know what to make of the new Soviet state. Hoover fellow Robert Service explores a time of conflict and disillusionment. By Jonathan Derbyshire.

October 26, 2012

Fertile Ground for Extremism

Figure 1 Economic Growth in Sixteen Major Market Economies

Hard times stimulate a search for radical—and wrong—answers. By Mark Harrison.

August 13, 2012

Curse of the Goebbels Diaries

Joseph Goebbels “the first ‘spin doctor’
Image credit: Hoover Archives

The war was over, but the battle to publish the papers of the Nazis’ master propagandist was just beginning. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

August 13, 2012

The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"

Soviet Union’s launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957 stamp

Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.

August 13, 2012

Resilience Is Not Enough

Bouncing back from national-security setbacks is no substitute for overcoming or avoiding them in the first place. By Amy B. Zegart.

April 6, 2012

Herbert Hoover's Road Not Taken

George W. Nash cartoon
Image credit: Taylor Jones

Completed forty-eight years ago, his magnum opus appears at last. George H. Nash discusses its insights into our thirty-first president. By Charity Nebbe.