Third World Communism in Crisis: Reform Runs Aground in Vietnam

Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.

The 2004 elections saw the defeat of the former communists who ruled Romania for most of the period since the fall of communism. Will the country's new, democratic, and pro-European…

Although the transfer of power from Fidel to Raúl has been relatively uneventful, potential divisions within the ruling elite, especially between the military and the Party, are likely to emerge…