China was hermetically closed for decades after the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Even today, access to primary sources, not least party archives, remains haphazard at best. The party ...

Dutch historian and Hoover Institution fellow Frank Dikötter has emerged as the contemporary West’s best chronicler of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and in the process has exposed some of the ...

CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by providing free, nonpartisan resources and programming to help high school and higher education students gain the knowledge, skills, and ...

In a powerful expression of nationalism, a “naval parade” of warships appears off Vietnam’s southern port of Cam Ranh Bay as a show of strength against China’s control of the South China Sea.

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand key tenets of fascism and communism and identify how they contrast with democracy. CFR Education aims to build global affairs literacy by ...

(Reuters) - China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1 with flowers, speeches, performances and a massive military parade though central Beijing. The 70 years since ...

Communism has made a comeback, and though our history books say that the United States won the Cold War…did we? We defeated ...

Students should be able to compare the true history of socialism’s violent ideology, pervasive atrocities, and spectacular ...