For decades after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union, two global superpowers representing capitalism and communism, respectively, engaged in the Cold War as both sought economic ...

Communism is an ideology that advocates a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally. Prominent examples include China and the Soviet Union.

In a communist system, there is no freedom—no freedom of speech, religion, and media. There are no elections. ... Here's the economic point — communism is a completely state-run economy.

HAVANA – HAVANA (AP) — Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro. The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a U.S ...

Specifically we have to take stock of what vision it's members espoused. The communist movement always included a wide range of sub-movements which competed with each other. It and it's constituent ...

To the editor: Jeffrey Engel’s Op-Ed article oversimplified the reality. (“U.S., Russia, Europe, China have different views on Berlin Wall’s fall,” Op-Ed, Nov. 1) East Germans gave their ...

For example, in Hungary, 74% in 1991 said they approved of the change to a multiparty system, and 80% liked the movement to a market economy. But when surveyed again in 2009, only 56% approved of the ...

HAVANA – Fidel Castro admitted to a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model has failed and isn’t worth exporting. “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us ...