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  •    Picture of the Northeast China Group of the Commission for Investigating the Crime of Bacteriological Warfare Committed by the American Imperialists taken at Shenyang April 1 1952 From 1952 pamphlet Exhibition on Bacteriological War Crimes Committed by the Government of the United States pg 13 published by The Chinese Peoples Committee for World Peace authors private collection   MR Online

    [UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare

    Originally published: Hidden Histories on February 13, 2024 by Jeffrey S. Kaye (more by Hidden Histories) (Posted Mar 07, 2024)

    When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
    James Petras       MR Online

    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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