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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sean McMeekin’s new book about the trajectory of the most consequential political movement of the 20th century, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, is an ambitious effort ...

And this is now: The West is under siege, and the American-led world order looks to be fraying. North Korea, a prototypical communist state, has nuclear weapons. Russia, ruled by an unapologetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not long ago I read a Communist magazine. There was an article on a famous Bulgarian monastery. It told of the shrine’s historic beauty, gorgeous mountain setting and significance in the nation’s ...