In the fall issue of The National Interest, Martin Malia, emeritus professor of history at Berkeley, conducts a thoroughgoing moral, political, and historical comparison of the Communist and Nazi movements. While the totalitarian atrocities of Nazism have been thoroughly documented, Malia notes that much academic "research" into Communist ideology and history has been conducted by revisionist academics "ranging from cautious doves to outright fellow travelers." As a result, Communist historiography is "fragmentary, thin, and defective" and existing histories of Communism are "no more than fantasy chapters of an epic culminating in a socialism that turned out to be a mirage." Moreover, despite the collapse of Soviet Communism "the revisionists themselves are still in place, and the debris of their narrative still frames our historical discourse." Explicitly framing his work as a counterweight to that of apologist marxist ideologues, Malia pulls no punches, arguing that "bluntness is presently a therapeutic necessity." Unfortunately the journal's articles are not available online, although abstracts and excerpts may be found here.