“Albanianism,” wrote the 19th-century poet Pashko Vasa, was his country’s one true faith. Not many outsiders will get the ...

Blendi Fevziu’s biography of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian ruler from 1941 to 1985, is the biggest-selling book in the history of the Balkan country. Remarkably little is known about the Le Monde-reading ...

Between 1944 and 1985, the small Balkan nation of Albania was ruled by a strange, sociopathic and, frankly, completely mad dictator by the name of Enver Hoxha. While Stalinism effectively ended in ...

The first detailed biography in English of Enver Hoxha paints a fascinating portrait of the weirdest tyrant the Balkans ever saw. Enver Hoxha, The Iron Fist of Albania’, by Blendi Fevziu, is published ...

In 1973, when Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship was at its peak, I slipped into Europe’s most isolated country masquerading as a university lecturer. Journalists were routinely denied visas and subterfuge ...

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 history of isolation and ...

Enver Hoxha’s empty villa stands in the centre of the revitalised Blloku district of Tirana. Photograph: imageBROKER/Alamy Enver Hoxha’s villa in central Tirana, once sealed off by the Albanian secret ...

From the end of World War II to 1985, the Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha simultaneously cultivated and profited from this national siege mentality. Originally a protege of Tito and Stalin, Hoxha ...