It is official now: as of 1 January, being a Communist in Czechia can make you a criminal, carrying a prison sentence of up ...

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 ...

I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose. But November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus. Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma ...

Mr. Allin and Mr. Stevenson are senior fellows at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. During the Cold War, large and influential Communist parties in Western Europe ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Ivan Klíma, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died. His son Michal told the Czech ČTK news ...

One October day in 1989, I dropped in at a bar on Leipziger Strasse in Communist East Berlin. I’d crossed from West Berlin into the East for a prearranged meeting with Bärbel Bohley, a leader of the ...