At one time, it looked like communism might have a shot at taking over the world. Today—not so much. Of the nearly 50 ...

Many people in countries under so-called "communist rule," or who belong to this or that communist party, will be quick to respond that what they are doing isn't actually communism; that will come ...

Home to one of the world’s oldest civilizations, China has been ruled by the Communist Party since 1949, when the nation was established as the People’s Republic of China. The country is the ...

Communist-ruled China now has 596 billionaires ... Jianlin dethroned founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma as the country’s richest person, Hurun’s annual wealth ranking showed.

Two years later the Berlin Wall fell, and one by one, Eastern European countries began rejecting communist rule. “A wave of optimism swept across Europe,” said the Pew Research Center.