Indeed, it was Hoxha who prompted my book: While in Albania, I wondered what it must be like to be his son or daughter. Let me remind you about the old man: Enver Hoxha ruled Albania from 1944 ...

The Tirana compound, which originally covered nearly 90 acres, has shrunk by two-thirds since Albania’s former communist ...

of Romania -- but never with greater success than in the case of the two Communist rebel leaders Marshal Tito and Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja). Tito ruled Yugoslavia for almost forty years.

The author shows how the Communist partisans under Enver Hoxha put Marxist-Leninist ideology and the internecine struggle for ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Ostalgie: The Berlin Wall - Legacy of Hoxha The world is changing, but Albania is not. The covenants of Enver Hoxha are honored with all responsibility ...

What does the establishment of the 'Independent State of the Bektashi Order' attempted by the Albanian PM mean for Greece & ...

In order to condition world public opinion, Moscow gave the signal to the pro-Soviet elements in Albania, led by Mehmet Shehu, a "grey eminence" behind Prime Minister Enver Hoxha, to seize power and ...

Under the 40-year Marxist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, totalitarianism destroyed the fabric of Albanian society and tradition, and yet this was not a bad time for birds. Hoxha reserved the ...

During his forty-year reign, the Albanian leader Enver Hoxha banned religion, forbade travel and outlawed private property. Any resistance to his rule was met with severe retribution, including ...

The listing cites several recent examples, including Albania under Communist Party leader Enver Hoxha in the 1970s and 1980s, Burma from 1962 to 1988 under dictator Ne Win, and North Korea to this ...

A generation after the fall of its Communist dictatorship, Albania is starting to uncover evidence of thousands of people executed by the former regime. More than 30 years after his death, the ...

The territory of the proposed new Islamist state is a compound in a low-rent residential district of eastern Tirana. It is ...