Is Communism Returning?

After a half-century of brutal communist rule and two decades of troubled postcommunist life, this small Balkan state surprised many by achieving a successful turnover of power by means of the…

Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party has used its two-thirds majority in parliament to change the constitution, erase checks and balances, and make the electoral system even more majoritarian.