Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Thomas Cromwell & Henry VIII of England
Compelling and believable historical fiction continues to encourage me to look further into non-fiction accounts of historical figures, in this case a complex of figures surrounding Thomas Cromwell and his King, Henry VIII. The book is Wolf Hall, by Hilary … Continue reading
Political Correctness and the “Cult of Personality”
The phrase “politically correct,” or “PC,” didn’t begin in the 1960s in the USA. It was first publicly used by a British Ministry of Information official during the First World War. It later appeared in Mao Zedung’s “Little Red Book” … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Historical Fiction
Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward, Gulag Archipelago, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin, Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party
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The Pavellas Perspective 