Decades after the bloody overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, tourism based on landmarks from Romania's communist era has become a thriving industry.

After years of dragging its feet, the Romanian government has recently revived plans to have five former Communist prisons enlisted as UNESCO World Heritage sites. – ‘Entering a hole’ – ...

Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie ’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison ...

Hundreds, if not thousands, of Romanian escapees were killed making bids for freedom across the Danube into Yugoslavia. Now, more than 30 years after the fall of communism, Romania is finally ...

Romania’s new leader after Mr. Ceausescu’s capture and execution was Ion Iliescu, a Communist apparatchik who served two terms as Romania’s first post-Communist president.

Legendary Romanian Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci fled from her abusive trainer and the tyranny of life in a Communist surveillance state for the American dream. Corbis/Popperfoto via Getty Images ...

A former Romanian prosecutor claims that the sound technology allegedly used in Belgrade last Saturday is a similar but more advanced version of the one used by the communist regime in the 1989 ...

Romania’s abortion ban tore at society, a warning for U.S. Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused maternal mortality rates to jump and left people wary of one another ...

Hidden behind Bucharest’s Soviet-style apartment blocks are the traces of the city’s once thriving Jewish community, 70,000 people strong, who lived in the capital before World War II and ...

Engineer Eugeniu Iordachescu, who devised an ingenious method to save Romanian churches threatened with destruction during the communist era, has died aged 89, the Romanian Patriarchy announced ...