Celtic would not play in round three until after Christmas, and then it would take them once more behind the Iron Curtain, ...

But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter Schabowski during an otherwise boring press ...

Steve Hideg was nearly broke when I met him in 2017, and wasn’t sure he’d be able to keep covering the rent on his humble little East Hollywood apartment. But I’d never encountered a more ...

For they have stuck to their positions on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal even as China’s rigorous control over the city ...

That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — 35 years ago Saturday. The infamous Iron Curtain was lifting. Democracy, at long last, was spreading to Eastern Europe. Once the Allied ...

The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...

While already 35 years have lapsed since the fall of the totalitarian, communist regime, there are still places that honour not its victims but perpetrators. One is Námestie Hraničiarov (Square of the ...

This volume explores relations between socialist planned economies of Central and East European countries and capitalist market economies of neutral states in Europe dyring the Cold War. It focuses on ...