Stories Of Communism

An interview with a couple of Cuban immigrants, who grew up under Communism but now live in the U.S. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Did you know that George Orwell's classic novels were partially influenced by his real-life experiences under Communist rule in revolutionary Spain? (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

We interview Jesus Arzola Vega, who is making a film about the small but growing capitalist movement in modern Cuba. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Discussing Stanislaw Lem's hilarious sci-fi allegory "The Eleventh Voyage", about a visit to a planet ruled by Communist-like robots. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Exploring Iris M. Diaz's memoir of living through Cuba's Communist revolution. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

The story of author Maxim Gorky's visit to the Gulag, which began as comedy but ended in tragedy. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

How punishing the productive led to mass starvation in Ukraine. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Exploring the system of mass slavery experienced by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn in the USSR. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

Surprising humor found in underground "samizdat" literature. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

The strange, amazing life of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who became part of Mao's Communist Revolution. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)

How Dostoyevsky predicted the worst abuses of Communism-- half a century before the Russian Revolution. (Send feeback to erik@storiesofcommunism.com)