China, navigating a path to socialism
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China the Morning Star starts a series of articles by CARLOS MARTINEZ
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On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China the Morning Star starts a series of articles by CARLOS MARTINEZ
Ursula Kuczynski, aka 'Agent Sonya.' | Images from the collection of the Hamburger family. / via Penguin Publishers Ben MacIntyre, a British writer for The London Times, is known to spy thriller fans as the author of meticulously researched biographies of famous 20th-century spies. The latest in his series is a comprehensive biography of Jewish German-born Ursula Kuczynski, later also known as Ursula Hamburger, Ursula Beurton, and Ruth Werner. Born in 1907, Ursula came from a distinguished family of academics. By her teenage years—especially after being beaten by a policeman’s truncheon ...
Editor's Pick DEA PICTURE LIBRARY / Getty Images ON 15 JANUARY 1935, a consequential meeting of the Communist Party of China politburo began in the city of Zunyi. Its deliberations would help Mao Zedong (above) take control of the CPC. Zunyi had been captured from nationalist forces the week before as part of the “Long March,” the Red Army’s response to the Kuomintang’s Fifth Encirclement Campaign against the Jiangxi Soviet. By the time of the Zunyi conference, the Red Army had been on the retreat from pursuing Kuomintang forces for three months. On 16 January, M...