Past & Present - A Research Tool for GDR History Vergangenheit & Gegenwart - Ein Hilfsmittel zur Erforschung der DDR Geschichte SITEMAP DISCLAIMER This site is optimised for Internet Explorer. Diese Website ist fur Internet Explorer optimiert. GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK 1949 - 1990 Studying the GDR in the UK and Germany DDR Forschung in Gro britannien und ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 21: Forging the Iron Curtain in the Balkans, 1944-1956 Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Winston Churchill was talking about the Cold War in Eastern Europe when he referred to the Iron Curtain in a well-known speech of 1946. The end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War are intertwined. Stereotypical ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 23: Social and economic change in the Balkans Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Significant changes from longstanding norms are easier to find in the area of Balkan socio-economic development, than in the world of politics. No matter how discouraging the repetition of Balkan crises and nationalist enthusiasms ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 24: The failure of Balkan Communism and the causes of the Revolutions of 1989 Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture The Revolutions of 1989 that ended Soviet-style Communism in the East European socialist states from the Baltic to the Balkans, were both dramatic and largely unexpected. It will be many years before a full ...

Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History Lecture 22: Balkan politics in the Cold War years Previous lecture / Complete list of lectures / Next lecture Lecture 21 criticized conventional, stereotypical views of the origin of the Cold War, on two grounds. First, that they substitute conclusions for questions, then tend to overlook important facts that don't support those conclusions. Second, ...