The Soviet Road Not Taken

For anyone with even a passing interest in cult psychology, San Diego State University's Jonestown Archive is well worth a thorough gander. Our favorite section, of course, is a compendium of primary sources that date back to Jim Jones's earliest days in Indiana. Among the choice morsels contained therein is a petition that all members of Jonestown were compelled to sign in 1978. Its title is fairly self-explanatory: "The Undersigned Desire to Emigrate to the Soviet Union." As the SDSU...