Contrasting Ideals and Ends in the American and French Revolutions (December 2024) describes and contrasts salient episodes in the American and French Revolutions, revolutions that deeply affected the history of the world and whose impacts reverberate to the present age. Even though some politicians and historians in America and Europe have likened the American and […]
The historians John Costello and Oleg Tsarev contend that Joseph Stalin harbored a “horrible secret,” namely that as a young revolutionary the dictator had been an informant for the Tsarist secret police, the Okhrana. There is some evidence to support the claim that Stalin might have collaborated and informed on fellow revolutionaries prior to the
The “Horrible Secret” and Orwell in Spain by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
Despite the cautious attitude of the Western democracies regarding involvement in the volatile situation in Spain in 1936, more than 35,000 volunteers from 52 countries flocked to Spain to fight in a war that they mistakenly believed would be the epic battle between fascism and freedom. The majority of the 35,000 foreigners that comprised the
Stalin’s Secrets in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD Read More »
Part IV of Dr. Faria’s book examines the reign of Mao in China. This is the one section of the book that absolutely shocked me. I had no idea that Mao was in a special class of amoral viciousness all his own. Of course, I knew that he was a brutal communist dictator, but
Part III of Dr. Faria’s book is dedicated to Stalin’s influence in the post-war world (1945–1953). After World War II, the Soviet citizen did not have to worry about being tortured and killed by the Nazis. However, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin’s position of a need to maintain a constant level of terror did
Part II of Dr. Faria’s book is a discussion of Stalin’s roles during World War II. He had already secured sole control of the country for ten years, and his first major projects to modernize the country in anticipation for war (as well as self-sustenance and self-support in various industrial capacities) had been completed by
