Every weekday morning, white-haired women patiently line up before a door at a Dresden retirement home, step in, and quickly step back nearly six decades into their past in Communist East Germany.

PRAGUE — The specter of communism is haunting Prague’s art scene. When Kunsthalle Praha opened in February, it was the city’s first fully privately funded museum, marking a move away from the ...

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.” So begins The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in late 1847 and published in early 1848. Nearly 180 years later, ...