After the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, our Eastern European correspondent, Robert Low, got an urgent telegram from a United Press reporter who had sublet his apartment in Prague. It said that the ...

Titan Comics' Hard Case Crime imprint brings the European graphic novel to English language audiences this December. By Graeme McMillan The 1948 overthrow of the Czechoslovakian government by the ...

The author’s childhood reminiscences of her first 11 years and savvy grasp of history inform this absorbing account of Czechoslovakia’s travails and Albright’s family’s suffering in the Holocaust. The ...

The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

Archaeologists in Prague have begun exhuming bodies of political prisoners executed by Czechoslovakia's communist regime. "This place is seen as sacred for political prisoners, especially the ...

PRAGUE — Cardinal Dominik Duka, a former Archbishop of Prague who was persecuted by the communist regime and later helped negotiate compensation for churches for property seized during that era, has ...

PRAGUE (Reuters Life!) - Glitzy new shops, fast food restaurants and trendy bars have replaced Prague's former monochrome socialist-era landscape but a museum dedicated to the country's communist past ...

From Kafka’s day until the coup d’état of 1948, Prague was a hub for architects working in what we now call the International Style: planar surfaces, horizontal fenestration, nautical staircases and ...