Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Romanian expatriate Andrei Ujica spent four years combing through the national film and television archives of his homeland to assemble this epic documentary, which uses official images of communist ...

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 ...