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Communism’s Forgotten Radicals

By: Huw Lemmey

A new book traces a group of forgotten militants whose disparate lives collided in 1920s Moscow, culminating in a queer love story against the backdrop of the nascent communist state.

The world revolution’s Moscow digs: the Hotel Lux building, 1910.

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There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say. It’s a quote that has become a legend, flattering Western preconceptions about taciturn, patient Eastern wisdom as […]

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There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say. It’s a quote that has become a legend, flattering Western preconceptions about taciturn, patient Eastern wisdom as […]

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There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say. It’s a quote that has become a legend, flattering Western preconceptions about taciturn, patient Eastern wisdom as […]

There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say. It’s a quote that has become a legend, flattering Western preconceptions about taciturn, patient Eastern wisdom as […]

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