Fall of the Berlin Wall
description: the dismantling of the wall that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, which symbolized the end of the Cold War and paved the way for German reunification.
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Tim Mohr · 10 Sep 2018 · 370pp · 107,791 words
Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former German Democratic Republic (BStU) Burning Down The Haus Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall By Tim Mohr ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL 2018 Contents Preface Introduction I: Too Much Future II: Oh Bondage Up Yours! III: Combat Rock IV
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bars and clubs in the East and established in the process the ethos of the fledgling new society being built almost from scratch after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This kaleidoscopic world I had fallen in love with was their world, their creation. At the time I had no idea I would eventually become
The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Michael Meyer · 7 Sep 2009 · 323pp · 95,188 words
Also by Michael Meyer The Alexander Complex THE YEAR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD The Untold Story behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall MICHAEL MEYER SCRIBNER A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2009 by Michael
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complete victory.” Again, the Reagan echo with a nod to Winston Churchill. Be resolute, and the enemy will blink. Goodness and light will triumph. The fall of the Berlin Wall serves as proof and inspiration. There’s only one problem—that of disjuncture, a confusion of cause and effect. What if it didn’t happen
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we could go ahead. It opened the way for everything that would follow,” he said, from the creation of a democratic Hungary to, ultimately, the fall of the Berlin Wall. This brief encounter with Gorbachev, coming with the first breath of spring after a long winter, would prove to be a hidden but decisive turning
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will grow relative to that of the United States. All this will accelerate the trend away from the America-centric world that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it will unfold in ways that are difficult to predict. Even amid the worst days of the Iraq war, when the world’s anger
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to call it definitive history; this book might better be thought of merely as a firsthand account of the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unusually among foreign correspondents, I was on scene for most of the events described, with few exceptions. My beat for Newsweek ran from Germany through
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, which among other things is the source of the Allensbach data on West German attitudes toward the Wall and reunification; William F. Buckley Jr., The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 2004. One of the best travelogues of this genre ever written is Anthony Bailey’s The Edge of the Forest, a reporter-at-large feature
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European Community (EC), 229 European Union, Cold War and, 21 “Evil Empire,” collapse of, 2, 14, 215–216 exit visas, 8–9, 118, 165, 168 Fall of the Berlin Wall, The (Buckley), 223 Fall of the Wall, The (BBC-Spiegel TV documentary), 228, 231, 232, 234, 235 Farocki, Harun, 236 Faust’s Metropolis (Richie), 25
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
by Gabriel Zucman, Teresa Lavender Fagan and Thomas Piketty · 21 Sep 2015 · 121pp · 34,193 words
/upload/pdf/Price_of_Offshore_Revisited_120722.pdf. 16. Ruth Judson, “Crisis and Calm: Demand for U.S. Currency at Home and Abroad from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to 2011,” IFDP working paper of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 2012, http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2012/1058
How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again)
by Nick Clegg · 11 Oct 2017 · 93pp · 30,572 words
of democracy’s victory over fascism. And for the many central and eastern European nations that began the process of applying for membership after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, becoming part of the EU was a demonstration of their new-found freedom from the grip of Soviet-era communism. In all these
What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
by Paul Verhaeghe · 26 Mar 2014 · 208pp · 67,582 words
the fascist concentration camps and the communist gulags as a legacy of the Enlightenment, arguing that it was time to put on the brakes. The fall of the Berlin Wall put the final nail in the coffin of ideology, and so the idea of an engineered society was shelved. Change and perfectibility remained keywords, but
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
by Jonathan Crary · 3 Jun 2013 · 102pp · 33,345 words
grain. The “short twentieth century” was coming to an abrupt end, between 1989 and 1991, with what to many seemed like hopeful developments, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of a bipolar, Cold War world. Along with the triumphalist narratives of globalization and the facile declarations of the historical end of
The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics
by Jonathan Aldred · 1 Jan 2009 · 339pp · 105,938 words
serves to protect the economic orthodoxy. In some ways the orthodoxy has served us, in rich economies, quite well. For a brief period after the fall of the Berlin Wall, some even talked of ‘The End of History’. Our economic problems were solved, and something called ‘The New Economy’ had arrived, promising endless prosperity - or
Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Want (And Why They Were Never Going To)
by Chris Grey · 22 Jun 2021 · 334pp · 91,722 words
up with the idea of economic globalisation, but it also implied a unipolar geopolitics and a trend to ideological homogeneity. Thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, that analysis has turned out to be naïve in almost every respect. The world is not unipolar (nor is it any longer bipolar in the
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
by Hans Kundnani · 16 Aug 2023 · 198pp · 54,815 words
of challenging the hegemony of the dollar—but France and West Germany had been unable to overcome their different visions for it. However, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with German unification imminent, French President François Mitterrand saw it as a way to constrain a more powerful Germany and pushed Chancellor Helmut Kohl to
Bosnia & Herzegovina--Culture Smart
by Elizabeth Hammond · 11 Jan 2011 · 105pp · 33,036 words
through a strongly nationalist set of policies. He revoked the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina, causing massive protests from those who lived there. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, some of the Yugoslav republics, namely Croatia and Slovenia, started pushing for more independence. Croatian nationalism was growing
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Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-To-Peer Debates
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The Skripal Files
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The Curse of Cash
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Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
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