Amid the international censure of Nicolae Ceausescu, and the rush to recognize the revolutionaries who deposed and executed him, it seems hard to recall that Ceausescu, like Gen. Manuel Antonio ...

Initially, the building was derided as a folly, an embarrassment of riches in one of Europe's poorest capitals. The cost of completing it was said to be Ceausescu's revenge. Now that the palace is ...

For this is the house that Ceausescu built, the Romanian communist dictator better known as the Butcher of Bucharest, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 25 years until 1989.

The narrator of Patrick McGuinness's first novel, "The Last Hundred Days," arrives in Bucharest during the final months of Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania with a strange sense of optimism. This is ...