1. The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy
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The Last Summer of the GDR: Freedom and Anarchy
2. What Really Went Wrong in Eastern Germany - Foreign Policy
5 sep 2024 · The Sept. 1 elections in the two eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia have hit Germany like a cyclone, delivering the strongest-ever turnout for an ...
Both sides of formerly divided Germany share blame for the region’s turn to the far right.
3. DJ Westbam: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Techno in Berlin
When the GDR reached its end in the summer of 1989, having arrived in desperation mode, it began to cast aside all “good socialist manners” on its final stretch ...
A guest article by Maximilian Lenz a.k.a. DJ Westbam, discussing the topic of Intangible Cultural Heritage "Technoculture in Berlin".
4. Why Germans love the '80s – DW – 01/03/2016
3 jan 2016 · The 80s are indeed still Germany's favorite decade. When asked in which post-war decade Germans would like to live, 23 percent opted for the 1980s.
It was the decade of young rebels, from the beginnings of the environmentalist movement in Germany to peace demonstrations in the East and West. A study shows: Germans remember the 1980s with a deep sense of nostalgia.
5. George Orwell's luminous truths | journalist, magazine editor & writer
“We will be a young country, equipped for the future with a just society, a new politics and a clear understanding of its role in the world.” That was then.
Order has returned to the streets of England but the mood in the country is uneasy, and this feels more like a temporary respite from chaos than something settled. The King, perhaps more in hope than expectation, has called for the nation to unite around “shared values of mutual respect and understanding”. That may be wishful thinking. He must know, or at least sense, that the harrowing ethno-sectarian violence and racist attacks of recent weeks on mosques and hotels sheltering asylum seekers in provincial towns have revealed something dark and shocking: an England atomised, an England in pieces. Le Figaro, the leading centre-right newspaper in France, provocatively described the riots as an act of “civil war”. Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform Twitter/X, and its chief troll, said much the same in a post directed at Keir Starmer.
6. The Abolition of the State - The Anarchist Library
It is easier to live, as well as easier to organize against the capitalists, and easier for minority views (such as anarchism) to be heard. But the best ...
Wayne Price The Abolition of the State Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives 2007
7. Communism and the Chicago School: The Forgotten Connections
22 mei 2023 · Communism and the Chicago school of economics are often seen as diametrically opposed viewpoints. However, if we look at their development over time, we can ...
The two ideologies appear to contradict each other, but their histories are intertwined.
8. Special Subject - Faculty of History - University of Oxford
The Russian empire also collapsed between 1917 and 1921, but was then reconstituted in a new and radical form. The Soviet solution to the 'nationalities problem ...
On the banks of the Tigris, Baghdad evokes the orientalism of the medieval folk tales of Scheherazade and Sinbad the sailor. From 762 to 1258, it was the seat of the ‘Abbāsids, one of the greatest Eurasian empires. On the road to Baghdad (892-1055) explores the turbulent history of the city in the tenth century; a history of revival, conflicts and crisis.
9. Commencement Addresses
Your era has seen the end of the Cold War, the creation of a political union in Western Europe without war, the global spread of democratic ideas and ideals, ...
Past Commencement Speeches
10. Review: 'Last Summer' is a Lush Damnation of Righteousness
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In this provocative feature by Catherine Breillat—France’s preeminent artisan of feminine desire on-screen—morality is placed under the microscope.
11. [PDF] Art Outside the Lines - Edinburgh Research Explorer
16 feb 2024 · Instead it remained frozen in the political landscape of the Cold War. Over the last two decades, perceptions of the GDR ... so lewd it makes ...
12. Capital B – Who Owns Berlin? - Autentic GmbH
For the subculture, it is a brief summer of anarchy in which anything seems possible, in which utopia and chaos lie close together. But the old power elites of ...
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13. [PDF] Warfare in peacetime : proxies and state powers - GovInfo
a good moral claim to fighting for their freedom, and the future of their ... so completely shares the worldview of authorities in Tehran that it makes a ...
