Volume 44 Issue 7 July 1994

Senators Thomas J. Walsh (Montana) and Pat Harrison (Mississippi) on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, New York, 25 June 1924. Library of Congress. Public Domain.

‘Snarling Roughhouse’: The 1924 Democratic Convention

A 17-day political dogfight at the 1924 Democratic National Convention revealed the faultlines in American society, from prohibition to Protestantism to the shadow of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Democratic Development of the former Soviet Union

Bill Wallace looks at the mixed inheritance of democratic ideas in Mother Russia and beyond as possible auguries for the future of the regimes that have succeeded the Soviet Union.