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 ...

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 ...

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books, 544 pp., $35) Sean McMeekin is a historian perhaps best known for his revisionist accounts of the ...

(Reuters) - Today they are 18 years old. In 1989 when the young generation was born, communist regimes fell all over eastern Europe. Here is a chronology of the fall of former communist regimes ...

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 ...

While commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US over the weekend, President Donald Trump made a speech that echoed a bygone era. “Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty,” he said at a ...