communist countries

Describes how, despite the attempts by authorities to censor their voices, ordinary users and political dissidents in Cuba, China, and Russia have created blogs which expose government abuses and the injustices occurring in everyday life.

Discusses America's secret plan known as Rollback that was designed to subvert and sabotage the Soviet grip on its satellite countries after the collapse of Nazi power in 1945.

Presents memoirs by ten survivors of prisons and work camps in such Communist countries as the Soviet Union, Cuba, Vietnam, and China during the Cold War years, and includes background on the gulag genre of literature and introductions to each work.

This work details the growing phenomenon of state capitalism, a system in which governments drive local economies through ownership of market-dominant companies. This trend, Bremmer argues, threatens America's competitive edge and the conduct of free markets everywhere.

Discusses how and why the United States is losing the war of counterespionage.