Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union. He describes the horrific experiences of his family any then answers the question, why does communism always end in terror?

Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union. He describes the horrific experiences of his family any then answers the question, why does communism always end in terror?

Interview with Jung Chang, author of 'Wild Swans', about her own and her family's experience of communist rule in China. Jung Chang's book "Wild Swans" was an international best-seller with sales of over 13 million copies. In this interview, Jung Chang describes how her communist party parents became disenchanted in the Cultural Revolution and were cruelly mistreated. How Mao declared that even grass was 'bourgeois'.

One of the most influential books ever written about Communism and its history was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Giles Udy, historian and expert on the Gulag, tells the remarkable story of how this book came to be published in the Soviet Union.

At the end, James Bartholomew asks a follow up question.

This was an in-person and zoom event of the Museum of Communist Terror which took place on June 14th, 2022.

The 1989 revolt against the communist regimes dominated by Ceausescu in Romania began with an uprising in a city called Timisoara. But how did the Timisoara uprising begin? This is the remarkable story of how one pastor set off a chain of events that led to the downfall of a communist dictator. Zsolt Szilagyi, who was a witness and participant in these events, tells the story.

"What millenials should know about Communism" - Talk by James Bartholomew at the Sydney Institute in October 2018.

Talk by Roger Moorhouse, author of 'First To Fight', London, November 2019.