"East Germany, apparently the most successful Communist regime, although with its economy wrecked by ideological misma…"

"A persuasive way of understanding the collapse of Communism in Europe and the Soviet Union is to think of nineteenth-…"

"An attempt is being made by the Russians in Berlin to build up a quasi-Communist party in their zone of Occupied Germ…"

"The creation of two German states, an event unforeseen at Tehran, Yalta, or even at Potsdam, was a signal Cold War ph…"

"It seems to me that certain definite patterns are emerging from the situation in East Germany and the Eastern Europea…"

"I find it difficult to say whether the leadership's 'second echelon' could have preserved the German Democratic Repub…"

"During the Cold War, while West Germans were confronting their Nazi past, East Germans were avoiding it. The Communis…"

"East Germany ranked higher among the world’s economies than South Korea does today, and was able to make some claim t…"

"The decay of the Soviet experiment should come as no surprise to us. Wherever the comparisons have been made between …"

"The authorities in the German Democratic Republic kept an even more rigid control over their people than was achieved…"