SXSW: Historian Peter Keup unearths the traumas of his past to reveal the nefarious actions of the secret police and the surveillance state it imposed during its 40 years in power.

Germany's parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, ... In East Germany, a growing protest movement and a migration wave to the West forced the dictatorship there to end in 1989.

Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labour under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move ...

After all, Yugoslavia was a communist dictatorship until the early 1990s. In a single generation, Cuba went from a nascent republic to a nightmare under Fidel Castro.

Brazil’s government has formally apologized for the killing of journalist Vladimir Herzog during the military regime 50 years ...

BERLIN — Germany's parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship.