July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

BEIJING — The 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday will mark a triumphal moment for the nation’s ruling Communist Party, as it surpasses the defunct Soviet Union’s ...

Known as the Shanghai Gang, a group led by a former Communist Party chairman, Jiang Zemin, opposes Mr. Xi’s coronation for a third five-year term as party chairman and China’s president. No opposing ...

After the 1991 Soviet collapse, he wrote “Judgment in Moscow,” a book that called for a trial of Soviet Communist Party and KGB officials similar to that of Nazi leaders’ trials in Nuremberg ...

In 1986 a much younger man, Mikhail Gorbachev, who had worked his way up in the Party hierarchy was appointed to the leading position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.

A Chinese film blames the Soviet Union's collapse not on the communist system but on individuals who betrayed it, especially Mikhail Gorbachev. As Jeremy Page reports: The six-part documentary ...