Communist Leaders

The men who ran communist states — Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Kims, Castro, Ceaușescu and others: how they took power and how they used it.

• Communist Leaders: A Reference List

  The leaders of the world's communist states, from Lenin to Xi Jinping, with their dates and the offices they held, country by country.

• Turkmenistan: How a Soviet Party Boss Became Turkmenbashi

  Turkmenistan's dictatorship was built by its last Communist Party chief. Today it scores 1 out of 100 for freedom and has passed power from father to son.

• Mao Zedong Thought: The Ideology the Party Still Defends

  What Mao Zedong Thought taught, what it cost, and how the Communist Party kept it as doctrine while blaming its disasters on Mao's 'errors'.

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