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Cold War
‘Before the party ended – or began’
‘The wrestler flails around like a half-wit, lunging at the empty space, grappling the air, groping about there where once there was an enemy.’
Choosing a capsular civilization
And yet, NATO survived…
The numbers back up the claims of an economic hit man
Mocking laughter of the gods at “the high Eighties”
Entanglements of Cold War historiography
Slideshow:
50XCuba
Gunter Grass’s diary entry, October 3rd, 1990: “It was right to spit on their jolly unification parade”
Stalin the TV hero
Changing the past
Žižek’s hope for new Kravchenkos, with happier ends
1989, choices of peace and the creative suicide of the East
‘What both men really dislike is what they perceive as right-wing triumphalism in the wake of 1989’
Der Speigel feature on 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
The defeat of Communism: a war unknown by the victor?
Timothy Garton Ash on the need for a history of 1989 from below
The Revolutions of 1989: ‘History, however, is always more complicated and messy than the moral and ideological tales it may be called to serve’
Poetry:
9 poets write new works inspired by the fall of the Wall
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Slideshow:
The City is a Playground
Poem:
‘The Next Apartment’ by D. Nurkse
Book:
‘Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television’ by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Photo essay:
The Party Goes On
Image gallery:
What is Hip Hop?
Short story:
‘My Father’s Antenna’ by Fouad Laroui
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