The rich history of struggle and revolt in the Eastern bloc began with the formation of the USSR satellite states after the Second World War and continued to the revolutions in 1989. When the dam ...

The end of the story was gruesome–a spray of bullets and a splattering of blood on a wall in central Romania. On Christmas Day 1989, after a hastily arranged trial before a kangaroo court, the ...

Goble agrees this intellectual component of the 1989 Revolutions was critical in gaining wider appeal, especially in Poland and Czechoslovakia. “The underground writing in Poland, much of which ...

The revolutionary year of 1989 is most closely associated with the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. But inside the Soviet Union itself, particularly in its Russian republic, the year was also ...

We have been living in the age of 1989--an age of democratic revolution. The damage is to those revolutions and their legacy. The Cedar Revolution has undergone any number of setbacks since 2005 ...

Both images come to mind in remembering the revolutions of 1989, which humbled a ruling system that believed itself to be based on the historical wisdom of Lenin and, indeed, of Engels.

The 20th century effectively ended in 1989, with a wave of revolutions (and, in the case of Tiananmen Square, the government obliteration of a revolution) and the birth of the internet.

People struggling for justice for family members killed in the 1989 uprising say that servants of the Ceausescu regime have blocked any reckoning with the past. By Andrew Higgins Andrew Higgins ...

The New Year That Never Came, a drama about the Romanian revolution of 1989, written and directed by Bogdan Muresanu, won the Grand Prix, the top prize, at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City ...

Revolution was already in the air that winter ... of political obscurity in Slovakia and returned to Prague in November 1989.