Communism

Fidel Castro: My Hero in Havana

Ullekh NP

For the world of communism, he was the last icon

Farewell Fidel

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The Communist who made history after the end of history

The Fall of the Soviet Union: Monologues from Below

Svetlana Alexievich

A Nobel Laureate chronicles the fall of the Soviet Union

1989: Between History and Memory

S Prasannarajan

The threat today is no longer from the comic strip communism of Pyongyang. It is the ex-communist as an aggrieved nationalist, or the pinstriped communist as a Confucian capitalist, who challenges the world

Among the Digital Dissidents

S Prasannarajan

I have not found a better creativity-of-dissent narrative than Emily Parker’s Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground

A Tipsy-Turvy State

Soutik Biswas

There are few quite like the merry men of Communist Kerala. From a group’s 27-year crusade for senior citizens’ right to subsidised alcohol to others who shoot off indignant SMSes if a liquor shop delays opening its shutters by even five minutes, Soutik Biswas records the desperation of the Malayali alcoholic.