I enjoy sharing books with others, which was the genesis of this annual list. Six previous reviews have included monographs ...

“What you are seeing is the pincer movement closing in on the surviving top leadership,” Ajai Sahni, a counter-terrorism ...

The Naxalite insurgency, one of the world’s longest running, has claimed the lives of thousands of security personnel, rebels and civilians across central, southern and eastern India over more than ...

According to Drage’s biography, Cohen was born in London in 1889 to a family that had just arrived from Poland, but most analysts agree that he was actually born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in a ...

The series does show citizens protesting about injustice and petitioning higher authorities for redress. But the loudest ...

and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. This biography is the most balanced and well researched to date, combining a lively style with genuine insights derived from many years of close study. Yet ...

1 / 5 | In November 1965, a review of a play about a Ming dynasty official who criticised the emperor, titled “Hai Rui Dismissed From Office”, was seen as a spark for the Cultural Revolution ...

If you ever go to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, you’ll be greeted with a portrait of Mao Zedong. Mao founded the People’s Republic of China, and he served as chairman of the Chinese Communist ...

to burnish his Marxist credentials into something called “Mao Zedong Thought” by reading orthodox Stalinist primers that had recently been translated into Chinese. Two main things, which shaped his ...

Xi’s self-styled image as a leader with absolute authority has roots in his formative years as the son of a revolutionary ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theorist, and the main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Chinese People's ...