Rumania, bah! It is neither a state nor a nation, but a profession. —Nicholas II of Russia The floods came early to western Rumania, spilling in thunderous green torrents from the snowy Carpathians, ...

The film "The Changing Face of Eastern Europe" explores the evolution of Eastern European nations under Soviet influence post-World War II. It details the transition from strict Soviet control to a ...

(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 ...

BUDAPEST (dpa) – For generations television viewers in Central and Eastern Europe were fed with official versions of history, news, and the events of daily life. Today, some regional television ...

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, according to multiple reports, more than three decades after he led an unprecedented era of economic reform in the Soviet state that ...

Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland provide a window into ordinary lives during the communist era Alice Popovici - Freelance writer Visitors to the Red ...

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace ...

Everyone seems to agree with the idea of learning from history, but few seem to actually do so. Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation marks Victims of Communism Memorial Day. The ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, died this week. In the West he was hailed as the man who turned the Soviet Union away from communism and brought ...

(This is part of a series on youth in post-Communist Europe) March 21 (Reuters) - Today they are 18 years old. In 1989 when the young generation was born, communist regimes fell all over eastern ...