For years we’ve been steered toward the old Soviet Union as the model of Marxism to either admire or hate in America. In the process very little notice has been given to Maoism and the rise of the cult of personality that surrounded the most violent and…
I developed a habit of crossing myself when I first went to USSR in 1991. I’m not Catholic or Orthodox, but to spend two months in Soviet states that were atheist by law can make anyone aware of his church…
I’ve told stories of my mountain home before, and also stories about the differences between racial feelings about blacks and whites in the South and in the North at the time of Martin Luther King. We had two major coal towns living side by…