1. Notes & Asides.
- Author
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Buckley, William F.
- Subjects
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COMMUNISM & liberty , *COMMUNISM & culture ,EDITORIALS ,SOVIET Union politics & government, 1945-1991 ,ATTEMPTED coup, Soviet Union, 1991 ,RUSSIAN politics & government, 1991- ,HUNGARIAN politics & government, 1945-1989 - Abstract
Presents a letter from editor William F. Buckley about the demise of communism. Reference to the first issue of the "National Review" in 1955, which announced a war against communism and no substitute for victory; Description of how the communists lost the war, with key figures such as Ronald Reagan and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Reasons for the ultimate decline of communism; Tribute to those Hungarians who died in the fight for freedom in 1956; Thanksgiving for the transfiguration of Russia.
- Published
- 1991