This is the realization faced by Stasi victim Peter Keup, the focus of "The Spies Among Us," as well as our guide to Germany's history with communist dictatorship. Keup was imprisoned for ...

YUEN FOONG KHONG is Li Ka Shing Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of ...

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.

BRASÍLIA — Brazilians are trying to come to terms with the Jan. 8 riot that rocked their young democracy. The usually calm capital of Brasília became a site of chaos. Thousands of supporters ...

It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist dictatorship in East Germany, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union ...

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.

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 ...

What began on this day in 1843 ended in a strange form of decolonisation. The UK handed over a territory to China, not by popular demand, but to abide by international treaties, knowing that to the ot ...

China is planning for the death of the globally admired spiritual leader. The United States should prepare as well.