Whenever the foreign news is especially depressing, I like to reminisce about the halcyon days of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin wall so memorably illustrated the collapse of Communist tyranny in ...

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Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Sean McMeekin, Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, to discuss his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and ...

The publisher is to be commended for giving us this work of real scholarship about a subject that has become dominated by Communist sympathizers. As he writes in the early pages, “The real secret of ...

Pope Benedict XVI began his first visit to the Czech Republic as leader of the Roman Catholic Church on September 26. After an airport ceremony and a motorcade through the streets of Prague, the ...

May 9 (Reuters) - Albania counted votes on Monday from Sunday's mayoral elections seen as a test of the Balkan country's readiness for European Union candidate status. A 525-strong international ...

(Reuters) - Today they are 18 years old. In 1989 when the young generation was born, communist regimes fell all over eastern Europe. Here is a chronology of the fall of former communist regimes ...

Ion Iliescu, who as president of Romania led the country through its transition to democracy from communism but was later accused of crimes against humanity for his role in the violent revolt that ...

Fifty years after the communist victory in Vietnam, the old domino theory seems to have been definitively replaced by a deeper conflict determined by history, power, and geography. On a cloudy April ...