While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative ...

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, ...

Writing for CNN.com, George Soros, philanthropist and financier, traces the roots of his nonprofit Open Society efforts in Central and Eastern Europe and their impact on the collapse of communism ...

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Abandoned mines in Romania leach waters contaminated by heavy metals into rivers. A Hungarian chemical plant produces more than 100,000 tons of toxic substances a year. Soil in ...

Anarchist communism often hides in the shadows in the general works on anarchism available, only clearly emerging when the ideas of Kropotkin, Reclus and Malatesta are discussed. All too often, apart ...

Recently two important books on anarchist communism have appeared. They both seek to reclaim the tradition of anarchist communism, and both have been written by veterans of the anarchist communist ...

The bishops of Eastern Europe issued a statement this week marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, warning that “the wounds caused by Communism continue to be present in the lives ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Communist and Post-Communist Studies continues Studies in Comparative Communism and is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly ...

President Ronald Reagan had a simple plan for winning the Cold War: We win, they lose. He knew that putting an end to communism in Europe was a moral and economic imperative for America and for free ...

WARSAW, Poland >> In the Latvian capital of Riga, an obelisk that soared high above a park to commemorate the Soviet Army’s capture of that nation in 1944 was toppled last week. It crashed into a pond ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The dramatic collapse of communist regimes worldwide in ...