After a career as a revolutionary journalist in America -- during which he wrote a biography of Sacco and Vanzetti -- Lyons went to Soviet Russia fully expecting to find Utopia. Being a Communist, he ...

Until 2020, this 16-storey tower block was typical of the apartment buildings that dominate the skyline of not just Gabrovo, but cities across Central and Eastern Europe. Many of these blocks are ...

The 19th-Century Novel That Inspired a Communist Utopia on the American Frontier The Icarians thought they could build a paradise, but their project was marked by failure almost from the start.

While Czechoslovakia was a communist satellite, the buildings were given away for free "under the threat of Russian guns and tanks" but are still used today by Moscow diplomats.

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century J. Bradford DeLong. Basic, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-0-465-01959-5 ...