Submitting to Moral Blackmail? Kristen Ghodsee’s “The Left Side of History”July 19, 2015

Reviewed by Stephen Gowans

Kristen Ghodsee’s “The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe,” is a variegated reflection on socialism as practiced in Eastern Europe, and especially Bulgaria, in the four and half decades following WWII.

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