Just like the wall that separated free, capitalist West Berlin from communist East Berlin and East Germany had been a symbol of Marxist tyranny (communist authorities erected it to prevent escapes ...

West Berlin, a democratic stronghold, is isolated within Communist East Germany, symbolizing a loophole in the Iron Curtain. The film highlights the challenges faced by West Berliners, including ...

The first major crisis of the Cold War close Cold WarThe political tension and competition for power that existed between the communist East and the ... was over the city of Berlin.

Rumours have long surrounded the official version of Bertolt Brecht’s death from a heart attack in 1956 in Communist East Berlin. But Professor Stephen Parker, from The University of Manchester, has ...

In the divided German city, capitalist democracy proved all too alluring for East Germans. They fled to West Berlin by the thousands, embarrassing the Soviets and threatening the Communist hold on ...

“East Germany in from the Cold ... “The Social Capital Legacy of Communism-Results from the Berlin Wall Experiment.” European Journal of Political Economy 32: 391–411. Borjas, George J. 1987.