On the 30-year anniversary of the Velvet Revolution ending Communism in Czechoslovakia, notes on how to transform a one-party state into a democracy in a matter of weeks

The 30th anniversary of the nation’s liberation is troubled not only by its past but also by its present

How change swept across central Europe 30 years ago this fall

Self-mutilation as a Jewish cultural strategy and the sad history of the Yevsektsiya

A worthy new biography of the late historian Eric Hobsbawm shows the ardent communist in the crucible of the 20th century

How two fundamental pillars of Western thought—classical Greek rationalism and monotheistic Jewish faith—collided in a remote area of the archipelago to produce a short-lived but influential communist

A visit to the only Jewish museum in Albania—Europe’s most Muslim nation and Islam’s most secular

Newly edited travel journals from 1965 show the poet infatuated and disillusioned with communist Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Poland

A 1920s epic poem about fear, and Jewish vulnerability, that could have been about 1944—or 2018

Tablet is publishing works analyzing the state of the American left as part of an ongoing feature inspired by Paul Berman’s series of essays on the subject. The latest examines what’s behind the current revival of Communist-inspired politics, and where it’s leading.

How a political fantasy became an excuse for genocidal anti-Semitism

The 19th of April Student Movement, with its political antecedents in converso history, looks to bring down the last incarnation of Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas

May Day: The surprising Jewish origins of the animated character who taught a generation of Soviet children to be good communists

And are we now on the eve of the emergence of a new, Fifth International?

100 years ago today the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd

Readers of the world, unite!

Looking back on an American and Jewish experiment in communal living

Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name

In some Israeli communities, the international workers holiday was just as important as the Jewish holidays

The case of Judith Clark

How virulent contagions of political fanaticism spread across the globe—or, what the Muslim Brotherhood and its descendants share with The Little Red Book

‘The Left Front’ highlights American art made for the Soviet Union’s official “Jewish homeland”

‘The Age of the Crisis of Man’ traces the fall and rise of individualist pragmatism in America