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Focuses on Communist party documents that shed light on the leadership in China at the time of the Tiananmen Square crisis in 1989, which are published in the book 'The Tiananmen Papers.' Question as to the authenticity of the documents; Evidence that the leaders were at a deadlock, which was broken by Deng Xiaoping, of whether to use military force in the situation or not; Implications of the publishing of the documents for leaders Jiang Zemin and Li Peng.

Reports that analysts at the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were pessimistic about the efforts of Russia President Mikhail Gorbachev to reform its communism. Views of the CIA experts in the nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties on his reformation; Effort made by the CIA after the fall of the Berlin Wall to monitor political changes in Russia.

Examines the influence of the works of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Popularity on United States college campuses in the 1960s and 1970s; University of California philosophy professor Douglas Kellner's editing of the `Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse'; German Marxist intellectuals of the Frankfurt School; Detractors and critics of the left and right; Relation to the work of Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin; Critique of Soviet communism.

Reports that transcripts of the 1950s closed-door sessions of the U.S. Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, led by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), were made public. McCarthy's efforts to root out Communist sympathizers; Witnesses, including prominent personalities like composer Aaron Copland; Contention of historians that the documents do not support McCarthy's theories that Communist spies were operating in the government; How the papers reveal McCarthy's methods; Revelations; Background on McCarthy; How McCarthy manipulated the news media.