Romesh Ratnesar
is Deputy Managing Editor of Time magazine. He has written on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and reported from many countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Nov 2009
Who killed communism? Look past the usual suspects.
Link: Who killed communism? Look past the usual suspects.
Here's an excerpt from an op-ed in the Washington Post:
Ratnesar is wiser than his book suggests. Proof comes from one immense contradiction. The book is subtitled "A City, a President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War," yet deep within its pages Ratnesar lets slip his true feelings: "No single event, taken in isolation, caused the Cold War to end. . . . The final years . . . were a moving stream, the currents of history flowing in directions both unpredictable and unforeseen." After reading those sentences, I found myself wishing that he had used his considerable skills to chart that stream, instead of focusing on what was actually a small islet.
