One breezy afternoon last week, a green-and-cream diesel train rolled into Mos cow’s cavernous Kiev station with a man described in the official press, only a few years back, as “traitor, Judas, ...

For the hapless Chinese people caught in Mao Tse-tung’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, there was no sign of relief from the political convulsions that gripped the nation. If anything, the ...