This contribution deals with the violence, conflicts and wars that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in the former socialist multinational federations. The question of why these federations disintegrated so soon after the collapse of the communist regimes is followed by more puzzles. Why did ...
Free Essay: The Berlin Wall loomed over the German capital during the latter part of the 20th century, a reminder of the "Iron Curtain" that ripped the world...
This contribution deals with the violence, conflicts and wars that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in the former socialist multinational federations. The question of why these federations disintegrated so soon after the collapse of the communist regimes is followed by more puzzles. Why did viol...
The Berlin wall had crumbled and technology would save us all, and there was a new optimism in the air, and despite the optimism the Breeders music felt like a note of warning. Melodic and discordant all at the same time, women's voices singing from the darkness, uncompromising; not soft...
However, between its construction in August 1961 and its destruction in November 1989, the Berlin Wall came to symbolise the ‘Iron Curtain’ that separated Western Europe from the communist Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, so when the Wall finally crumbled and live images showing thousands of ...
作者: M Streich 摘要: Twenty-five years ago this month, the Berlin Wall crumbled. Michel Streich was there.关键词: electronic publisher online databases online resources Australasian research information scholarly research e-titles commissioning publishing information sources library resources ...
Burke is pursuing a tip-off that, as the Berlin Wall crumbled, Fuchs had been murdered to prevent him revealing a secret that challenged all the certainties of the postwar world. This is a cracking novel that rattles the action along from London to Moscow and Berlin to Reykjavik. In a ...
They took the Wall away in the middle of the night. Eighteen metres of concrete and iron that had stood in Potsdamer Platz - gawped at and painted on for the 18 years since the Mauer crumbled on that strange, joyous day in 1989 - was gone. They took it three weeks ago, when the ...
Born in 1977, at the tail end of Generation X, I came of age in the 1990s, a decade that, bracketed neatly by two architectural crumblings — of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Twin Towers in 2001 — now seems relatively irony-free. The grunge movement was serious in its aesthetics...
Photograph of the Berlin Wall taken from the West side. The Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing from Communism. It was an iconic symbol of the Cold War and its fall in 1989 marked the approaching end of the War. Part of a series on the History of the Cold Wa...