Michael Simmons

The Rise and Fall of Communism

Michael Simmons reviews two titles on the legacy and fall of Communism

Published July 15 2009

Prague’s Spring

Michael Simmons draws on many years experience of living in, and reporting from, central Europe to look back at the upheavals in Czechoslovakia of 1968.

Published July 14 2008

The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War

Published May 16 2008

Which Way Cuba?

As Fidel Castro finally hands over the reins of power after forty-nine years, Michael Simmons finds his country poised between past and future.

Published March 11 2008

Coming to Terms with The Past: Hungary 1956

Michael Simmons has been back to Budapest as it prepares to commemorate the anniversary of the 1956 Uprising, and finds many questions still unanswered.

Published September 18 2006