The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to a ...

Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession. —Nicholas II of Russia The floods came early to western Rumania, spilling in thunderous green torrents from the snowy Carpathians, ...

(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 ...

Moscow will not accept reunification without at least two major preconditions: first, the guarantee by the West (primarily the United States) of the present Polish-German and Czechoslovak-German ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

When, upon graduation from college in 1973, I traveled for several months throughout communist Eastern Europe, I was warned that I would be entering a dreary gray zone pulverized by the regime-induced ...

Everyone seems to agree with the idea of learning from history, but few seem to actually do so. Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation marks Victims of Communism Memorial Day. The ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, died this week. In the West he was hailed as the man who turned the Soviet Union away from communism and brought ...

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, according to multiple reports, more than three decades after he led an unprecedented era of economic reform in the Soviet state that ...

(This is part of a series on youth in post-Communist Europe) March 21 (Reuters) - Today they are 18 years old. In 1989 when the young generation was born, communist regimes fell all over eastern ...