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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support. Bones of tortured ...