Eastern Europe

Richard Cavendish provides an overview of the life and career of the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who died on April 11th, 1985.

Mary Heimann restores Czechoslovakia to its pivotal role in the Munich Crisis.

The 2009 Nobel Prize winner for literature is well placed to describe the trials of Eastern European minorities through the maelstrom of the 20th century, writes Markus Bauer.

Dan Stone looks at how historians’ understanding of the Holocaust has changed since the end of the Cold War with the opening of archives that reveal the full horror of the ‘Wild East’.

The mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on May 14th, 1955.

John Erickson assesses the massive Soviet assault into Germany in the final year of the war and the price of liberation.

Yehuda Koren tells one family’s remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz.

Mark Rathbone compares Gladstone's and Disraeli's differing approaches to a crucial foreign policy issue.

Martin D. Brown tells the little-known story of how British and American soldiers disappeared in Slovakia’s Tatra Mountains during the remarkable episode of Slovakia’s National Uprising against its Nazi-supporting government during the Second World War.

Anthony Head describes the ways in which an atrocity has been commemorated, sixty years on.

John W. Mason gives the historical background to this month's elections in Slovakia.

Nicholas Soteri reflects on the early religious controversies of Eastern Europe, focusing in particular on an often overlooked kingdom, the Khazar..

An article about a project in exploring Jewish instrumental music