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Leon Aron

Leon Aron, a resident scholar and the director of Russian studies at American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987–1991 (2012). (February 2018)

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Millenarianism’s Deadly Allure

Many extremist chiliastic sects have been in thrall to similarly rigid ideologies and pursued them with a comparable zeal, but very few succeeded as spectacularly and as quickly as ISIS or the Bolsheviks.

February 13, 2018