Eastern Europe’s “Terrible Twos”

The recent protests in Russia raise the question of whether the Putin regime could fall to a “color” or electoral revolution like those that have ousted other autocratic regimes in…

The analogy with feudalism helps us understand the baffling changes that unexpectedly appeared during the transition away from communist rule.

There has been surprisingly little celebration of the tenth anniversary of the revolutions that brought down communism. The exaggerated hopes of the time have given way to disillusionment, but the…