Donnacha Ó Beacháin, professor of politics at Dublin City University, pursues this view relentlessly in Unfinished Empire ... Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ...

Second, growing differences between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU ... of Athens as well as from the ambitious Achaemenid Empire— the first Persian empire. Responding to the ...

Credit: Dimitrios Skourtelis / Reddit Digenes Akritas (Διγενής Ακρίτας) is one of the only surviving epic poems from the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire. It tells the ... the three leaders of a bandit ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist ... Byzantine culture then was part of the Ottoman ...

This is the brainchild of Ismet Shehu, a UK-trained Albanian chef who once served lunch to the late Queen Elizabeth II, now returned home to build a growing empire of restaurants, his latest ...

The Chinese Communist Party has now surpassed “big brother”, as it once called the Soviet Union. When that empire disintegrated, the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 ...

Military actions, infrastructure problems, and social welfare demands may then combine or clash, accumulating costs and backlash effects that the declining empire cannot manage. Policies aimed to ...

Karl Marx, the founder of Communism, author of 'Das Kapital', and, along with coauthor Friedrich Engels, 'The Communist Manifesto ... to symbolise their link to ancient Rome via the Byzantine empire; ...

[Source] Estimates believe that Joseph Stalin killed somewhere between 28,326,000 and 126,891,000 people were killed by the Communist Party of the soviet Union ... of over 8 million citizens of the ...