The ‘Picnic’ That Brought Down the Iron Curtain Matthew Longo’s new book details how ordinary citizens helped speed the downfall of the Soviet empire. Share full article ...

He wrote more than 30 novels, including an acclaimed series about Russian detective Arkady Renko. The first volume, "Gorky Park," was made into a 1983 film.

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

The book’s real heroes of course are the brave individuals in the communist bloc countries who were actually smuggling in the banned books — like Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, and Aleksandr ...

This book traces Phillips’ trip in 2019 along the entire length of what used to be the Iron Curtain, from the small Norwegian port of Grense Jakobselv on the Barents Sea to Sadarak, an Azerbaijani ...

who managed to send 10 million books behind the Iron Curtain. Some of them were serious tomes, yes, but there were Agatha Christie novels, Orwell’s “1984” and art books too. Crucially, MacGregor’s ...

When the Chinese want to wish anyone harm, according to Novelist Monica Stirling, they say, “May you live at an interesting period of history.” The saying may or may not be authentic, but its ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...

Voice of America brought light to dark places. Just ask Martina Navratilova. When the future tennis star was growing up behind the Iron Curtain, hearing U.S. music and the news of the world “was ...

Most news from behind the Iron Curtain comes from heavily censored dispatches of Western newsmen or the state controlled Communist press and radio. This week a new monthly magazine appeared to give ...

Thomas Mallon reviews “Iron Curtain” by Vesna Goldsworthy, whose work in all genres argues for the “Europeanness” of her former home in the Balkans.

The book’s real heroes of course are the brave individuals in the communist bloc countries who were actually smuggling in the banned books — like Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, and Aleksandr ...