For better or worse, Czechoslovakia last week was deep in the throes of revolution. It was not an upheaval in the old style of blood and barricades. It was in Europe’s new style—a revolution by law.

PRAGUE - The end of Czechoslovakia's totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a matter of weeks, without a shot fired. But ...

“Every woman-cook,” cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, “can rule the state.” But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the “old household slavery” ...