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Gore Vidal on the Cold War

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Gore Vidal on the Cold War

Where do bad ideas come from?

‘Before the party ended – or began’

‘The wrestler flails around like a half-wit, lunging at the empty space, grappling the air, groping about there where once there was an enemy.’

Choosing a capsular civilization

The numbers back up the claims of an economic hit man

Mocking laughter of the gods at “the high Eighties”

Entanglements of Cold War historiography

Slideshow:

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Gunter Grass’s diary entry, October 3rd, 1990: “It was right to spit on their jolly unification parade”

Stalin the TV hero

Changing the past

Žižek’s hope for new Kravchenkos, with happier ends

1989, choices of peace and the creative suicide of the East

‘What both men really dislike is what they perceive as right-wing triumphalism in the wake of 1989’

Der Speigel feature on 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

The defeat of Communism: a war unknown by the victor?

Timothy Garton Ash on the need for a history of 1989 from below

The Revolutions of 1989: ‘History, however, is always more complicated and messy than the moral and ideological tales it may be called to serve’

Poetry:

9 poets write new works inspired by the fall of the Wall