Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with absolute control for over forty years. He broke with Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and later ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s ...

The widow of Albania's former communist dictator Enver Hoxha, considered the power behind the throne and herself personally implicated in executions and deportations during his regime, died on ...

COMMENTARY: As Albania’s atheist system faltered, Mother Teresa’s providential mission of mercy helped loosen communism’s hold by easing fear’s grip on the nation.

Until December 1990, when widespread protests toppled a one-party state and ushered in a turbulent democracy, there was no place on Earth more adamantly Stalinist than Albania. A mountainous land to ...

John Watkins’ new travelogue offers an intriguing snapshot of a country still scarred by the legacy of its brutal dictator. Over the past 10 to 15 years, it would be easy for someone with only a ...

An enormous pyramid was long a reminder of a brutal regime and decades of disappointments. Now, it’s a symbol of a city aspiring to be the high-tech “Tel Aviv of the Balkans.” By Andrew Higgins TIRANA ...

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.

Pocket-sized Albania has always been the most backward of the Iron Curtain countries and to the Kremlin presents the additional problem of being the only satellite isolated from Moscow by unfriendly ...

A man most people never heard of—Colonel General Enver Hoxha, 36—had quietly become Premier of Albania’s Government and head of its National Liberation Army. Since the Germans had gone and the Allies ...