Yet, like the GDR tried to do, the GAA absolutely has to balance the aims of socialism with the realities of living in a ...

In Germany, coalition negotiations are currently taking place to form a new government, with discussions underway between the ...

More than 35 years after reunification, many eastern states in Germany still celebrate this GDR-era coming of age tradition.

In East Germany/the GDR, however, one of the most important founding myths was anti-fascism. The memory of the communist resistance under National Socialism provided the grounds for a national ...

Hoyer interweaves the experiences of ordinary East German citizens to illustrate what daily life was like under communist ...

In East Germany/the GDR, however, one of the most important founding myths was anti-fascism. The memory of the communist resistance under National Socialism provided the grounds for a national ...

"The civil liberties campaigners from Alliance '90/The Greens wanted a reformed GDR, while the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) wanted to cement the old standards," she said. "The other parties ...

In his story, set a few years after German unification, his main protagonist Vladimir Meyer is an East German academic and convinced communist who has become disillusioned with socialism as practised ...