Having found his idealism betrayed in America, Serbian-born screenwriter and playwright Steve Tesich produced an unlikely and ...

The Holocaust survivors who lived in the Romanian town of Targu Mures were sceptical when a group of Scots arrived offering help.

At Timișoara, several miles down the line, a fascist death squad would be waiting ... didn’t live long enough to see the rise of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Communist dictatorship after the end ...

He was friendly with Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a vociferous antisemite and court poet of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ... “With his death, we say goodbye to an era,” Gilbert Saim, a ...

A prizewinner at Venice and Palm Springs, Bogdan Mureșanu's robust ensemble piece captures national unrest in the dying days of the Ceaușescu regime. "The New Year That Never Came" (Courtesy of ...

Against a unifyingly momentous milieu — namely, the wintry week of revolution that preceded the accelerated downfall, trial and execution of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu on Christmas Day ...

Image But no war affected Victoria as much as the death of Albert in 1861 ... with tyrants like Idi Amin or Nicolae Ceausescu as well as leaders of friendly countries, but she couldn’t conceal ...

John Swinney appears to be trying to get 'Full-on John' to catch on as a nickname - but it's not quite 'The Iron Lady' ...

Thatcher was known as no such thing but delighted in the name and was known by it until her death, remarking she ... The Romanian dicator Nicolae Ceaușescu was once known as 'The Genius ...

This is the tenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...