Tag: Fall of the berlin wall

This series of plays were intended as a response to the events of autumn 1989, now they're being presented as history. Do they still stand up?

Four new books demonstrate European literature’s new schism, says Julian Evans. Since 1989, the centre of gravity has moved east, to the poor lands of the former Soviet domain

The revolutions of 2011 have proven that Arab culture is not incompatible with democracy. But the quest for freedom is far from complete, and many dangers lie ahead

Norman Stone’s marvellously venomous, myopic history of the cold war awards some surprising medals, but never fails to entertain

Cold warriors like myself badly overestimated the attractiveness of Marxism