The Dead End of Communism

If you were to ask most people about the origins of communism, they'd likely point to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of "The Communist Manifesto." If you asked a ...

Perhaps the oddest twist in the history and mythology of abstract art was the U.S. State Department's advocacy ...

The Russian-born Lev Kopelev, a disillusioned communist, was something of a legend in Germany where he was invited ...

In April 1945, the Third Reich was on its last legs. Triumphant armies from multiple countries were advancing ...

In the age of "social justice" and other progressive creeds in prevailing Western discourse, the tragedies of millions ...

Before the communist takeover in the 1917 October Revolution and the ensuing civil war (1917–1922), Russia's economy was ...

In communist societies, obtaining basic necessities—like food—is a real issue. Famines, food shortages, poor central planning policies, and ...

NEW YORK—Jesús de León remembers clearly when his spirit finally shattered. He was 13 years old. It wasn't ...

Thinking of "free love" may evoke images of Woodstock rather than early 20th-century Soviet Russia, but it was ...

Brandishing nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, North Korea has topped news headlines for the last decade as it ...

All throughout 1917, the toils of war and cascading revolutionary activity overturned the Russian Czarist government and established ...

Chao Yu is a graduate of China's prestigious Tsinghua University. In 1999, after the communist regime began its ...

Yu Wensheng, one of the few active human rights lawyers in China not to have been swept up ...

In June 4, 2006, the Chinese state-run Xinwenhua Bao in Jilin Province reported that a large number of ...

LONDON—The Royal Academy's Russian Revolution exhibition is vast and complicated. A realist painting of Stalin, glorified, stares from ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" is required reading for Russian high school students. The book is a first-hand account describing ...

In 1922, five years after the communist Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, numerous academics, journalists, professors, students, philosophers, and ...

Brandishing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, North Korea has topped news headlines for the last decade as it has ...

Throughout history, intellectuals have been frequent targets of tyrannical regimes to suppress political dissent. But Chinese communist leader Mao ...

NEW YORK—Ildiko Trien's charmed and pampered life in Romania was flipped on its head when she was 5 ...

The Soviet Union had been dumping radioactive waste into the sea for decades by the time the communist bloc collapsed ...

The word for today is "classicide," which means "extermination of a class" rather than ethnicity, race, or religion. ...

It's been written before that the followers of the ideas put forth by Karl Marx, who co-authored the ...

It's been nearly 100 years since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was carried out, placing a communist regime in ...

The worst dam disaster in history occurred during the end of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's decades-long reign, ...

One of the first actions taken during Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Forward program was ...

Some people don't like reggae music, and some people don't like Bob Marley's music. Despite that, his character ...