Henrik Bering

Henrik Bering is a graduate of Oxford University (Pembroke College) and has been a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford. He is the author of Outpost Berlin: The American Forces in Berlin 1945-94 and Helmut Kohl, an authorized biography. His reviews have appeared in Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Criterion.

The Man with the Gramophone: A Party Manifesto

When entertaining at his midnight banquets in his dacha, Stalin as the genial host would himself take charge of the gramophone and encourage his henchmen to prove their skills on the dance floor. In Teresa Toranska’s Them (1987), a series ...

The Man with the Gramophone: A Party Manifesto