when the fall of the Berlin wall so memorably illustrated the collapse of Communist tyranny in eastern Europe, or 1991, when a still relatively sober Boris Yeltsin stared down an “anti ...

The final chapters are especially uneven, with McMeekin devoting five pages to the doping of athletes in the Eastern bloc but just three sentences to the fall ... communism’s collapse in Europe ...

This was close to the high tide mark of global communism, though few suspected it at the time. The first independent trade union in postwar Eastern Europe was ... Union did fall apart, and ceased ...

“[Albania] was called the North Korea of Europe,” she recalled of her childhood in communism, widely regarded as one of the harshest dictatorships among former communist bloc countri ...

It marked the beginning of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Michaela Graichen spoke to two East Germans who believe they were the first people to cross from East to West on the night ...

BUCHAREST -- The fall of communism in Romania decades ago lifted ... "Ceausescu's children" after the Stalinist leader who ruled one of Eastern Europe's most repressive regimes until it came ...

Although the western part of Ukraine has seen little fighting, its eastern and central regions ... as Russian bombs fall just across the border; armed conflict has damaged the region’s ...