‘In the End I Was Right’: How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism

'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism

In 1949, during Stalin's reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died, "presumably for fear of revealing a declining life expectancy," Jonathan Daly writes in The Man Who Knew Russia, his new biography of Richard Pipes.The post 'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism appeared first on .

‘In the End I Was Right’: How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism

In 1949, during Stalin’s reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died, “presumably for fear of revealing a declining life expectancy,” Jonathan Daly writes in The Man Who Knew Russia, his new biography of Richard Pipes. Such crude censorship failed to conceal the...