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Three Revolutions by Simon Hall review – how Russia, China and Cuba changed forever

A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century

The Guardian - UK

Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’

The Oscar winner answers your questions about playing everyone from Peter Sellers to the Marquis de Sade, his home town of Toowoomba and new care-home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Guardian - UK

Forget Stalin and Trotsky, Animal Farm is a play for our times. Pringles anyone?

George Orwell’s publishers thought his parable was too specific. They needn’t have worried, 80 years on it’s as salient as ever

The Guardian - UK

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Revealed: The spycops who snooped on anti-nuclear protests in Scotland

AT least nine officers from London’s secret undercover policing unit, known as spycops, aided the infiltration and surveillance of anti-nuclear…

The National (Scotland)

Trevor Griffiths obituary

Politically committed dramatist and screenwriter admired for his radical stage and television work created over the last 50 years

The Guardian - UK

Remembering Lenin—the First Great Communist Mass Murderer

On the 100th anniversary of his death, it's worth recalling that almost all the worst features of communist totalitarianism began under Lenin, not Stalin and other successors.

Reason

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service – review

This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks

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‘Absolutely shameless’: Ken Loach says BBC helped ‘destroy’ Jeremy Corbyn

Director says media has ‘rewritten history’ to expunge ex-Labour leader and attacks Starmer regime for ‘manipulating the rules’

The Guardian - UK

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor review – butchery of the Bolsheviks

Personal testimonies humanise the Stalingrad author’s mesmerising study of the bloody battle for power after the collapse of the tsarist regime

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