“In all revolutions there comes a moment when the high ideals of the revolutionaries crash onto the hard rocks of reality,” writes Orlando Figes. “That moment came for Russia in March 1921,” he says. Figes and Aidan Flax-Clark discuss the retreat from the communist utopia that happened in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, a period known as the New Economic Policy. His essay is adapted from his most recent book, Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991.
Lewis Lapham talks with William Hogeland about the creation of the United States’ first standing army and its victory over a coalition of Indian forces that sought to halt the country’s expansion. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? More
Lewis Lapham talks to Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. More
The latest episode of our podcast. More
The latest episode of our podcast. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”. More
