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 ...

more than three decades after he led an unprecedented era of economic reform in the Soviet state that preceded the fall of communism in eastern Europe. Gorbachev died at Moscow’s Central ...

Diplomacy, Warfare and the Politics of Communism 1941-1945; F A Fejto, A History of the People's Democracies: Eastern Europe since Stalin ... Raymond Pearson, The Rise and Fall of Soviet Europe.

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 ...

For most of the past three decades, the received view of eastern Europe, defined roughly as ... More edgily, he contends that communism, including the Soviet sort, was not an alien phenomenon ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first head of the Bulgarian church to be chosen after the fall of Communism ... from other Eastern Orthodox churches.

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 ...