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The Museum of Communist Terror aims to keep alive knowledge and understanding of the deaths, terror and economic failure that took place under Communist regimes, primarily in the 20th century. The strategy is to do this through social media, videos, podcasts, the website, talks and films for schools and universities, events and the creation of a full-size museum in London. We are recording video interviews with people who have experienced Communist rule and acquiring exhibits for the proposed museum.

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Check latest episodes from Museum of Communist Terror podcast

Konstantin Kisin: what the communists did to his family and why does communism always end in terror?

2025/10/23

Interview with James Bartholomew, Director of the Museum of Communist Terror. Konstantin Kisin was born in the Soviet Union. He describes the horrific experiences of his family any then answers the question, why does communism always end in terror?

”Even the grass was bourgeois” - Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution.

2023/08/14

Interview with Jung Chang, author of 'Wild Swans', about her own and her family's experience of communist rule in China. Jung Chang's book "Wild Swans" was an international best-seller with sales of over 13 million copies. In this interview, Jung Chang describes how her communist party parents became disenchanted in the Cultural Revolution and were cruelly mistreated. How Mao declared that even grass was 'bourgeois'.

”One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” - how it came to be published.

2023/01/23

One of the most influential books ever written about Communism and its history was One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Giles Udy, historian and expert on the Gulag, tells the remarkable story of how this book came to be published in the Soviet Union. At the end, James Bartholomew asks a follow up question. This was an in-person and zoom event of the Museum of Communist Terror which took place on June 14th, 2022.

How the uprising against Nicolae Ceausescu began.

2021/05/27

The 1989 revolt against the communist regimes dominated by Ceausescu in Romania began with an uprising in a city called Timisoara. But how did the Timisoara uprising begin? This is the remarkable story of how one pastor set off a chain of events that led to the downfall of a communist dictator. Zsolt Szilagyi, who was a witness and participant in these events, tells the story.

What millenials should know about Communism

2021/03/24

"What millenials should know about Communism" - Talk by James Bartholomew at the Sydney Institute in October 2018.

Importing Class War - the unknown story of the Soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939

2021/03/24

Talk by Roger Moorhouse, author of 'First To Fight', London, November 2019.