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It’s impossible that “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the monument that the former Romanian dictator would have produced in his own honor. Among other things, it has an unhappy ending, at ...

One difference between free societies and autocratic ones is the absence, in free societies, of monuments to living politicians. Under Nicolae Ceausescu’s 25-year dictatorship, all of Romania was a ...

The key to “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the word “autobiography.” Andrei Ujica’s extraordinarily powerful montage of newsreel footage is not a record of the Romanian dictator’s ...

In the shadow of the Cold War, Nicolae Ceaușescu rose to power in Romania. His brand of national-communism would set the ...

Consider this heartwarming Christmas story, just in time for the season. It was back in the bad old days, the 1980s, and Nicolae Ceausescu was dictator of Romania. He had been in that exalted post for ...

This fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is informative and, especially in its last hour, surprisingly dramatic. By Peter Brunette, The Associated Press ...

A family photo archive reveals life behind the public facade of Romania's notorious communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. These images are some of nearly 6,000 photos released online in a photo ...

Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual socialist when it came to his cars. A Romanian ...

People struggling for justice for family members killed in the 1989 uprising say that servants of the Ceausescu regime have blocked any reckoning with the past. By Andrew Higgins Ruta Sepetys’s latest ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...