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The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

Now that the final chapter of communism in Eastern Europe has closed, historians can take a fresh crack at explaining its life cycle. Abrams addresses its birthing years, 1945-1948, in the Czech ...

In 1948, the newly declared Israel faced an existential dilemma. Independence had been proclaimed, yet survival was far from guaranteed without sufficient arms. An international arms embargo ...

Jiri Hajek first revealed himself to be a Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion ...

Czech police are reopening the investigation into the 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, following the discovery of new diplomatic and intelligence documents.

One winter night in 1948, two weeks after the Communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk fell to his death from his third-floor apartment in the Cernín Palace. Despite ...