With author of sub for the first of the planned 3volume biography of the soviet leader. This is about an hour. Please join me in welcoming stephen kotkin. Stephen is an International Affairs professor. [inaudible] [applause] gets a particular pleasure to launch my remaining book tour at the university of pennsylvania bookstore because the university of pennsylvania faculty in this area were instrumental in helping me work out some of the in what i might call the first draft of this manuscript. Im very grateful to them and would repay my gratitude by being here tonight and i appreciate the fact that those people helped me those professors are here tonight as well. So somebody said its very difficult to summarize 739 pages of text in a a book taught that somebody else said when the camera starting rolling the book readers only 628 pages and it read so fast. My strategy would be to talk about a little bit whats in the book and spend most of the time on questions than answers. Somebody ask
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‘Corbyn the Commie’ Smear Is All About Tabloid Press Fear of Regulation
The attack on Corbyn was apparently based on detailed evidence from a former Czech spy backed up by files found in the archives of the Czech secret police.
Following Labour’s better than expected election result in 2017, right-wing press hostility to Corbyn briefly died down – only to suddenly flare up again in the last week with an almost nostalgic theme. This was summed up in The Sun’s front page: “Corbyn and the Commie Spy.” The Sun’s story was enthusiastically taken up by Britain’s right-wing press and, despite overwhelming evidence refuting the claim, it is still at – or near – the top of their news agenda.