When the Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, symbolically signaling the end of the Cold War, it was no surprise that many credited President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for bringing it down. But the true heroes behind the fall of the Berlin Wall are those Eastern Europeans whose protests and political pressure started chipping away at the wall years before. East German citizens from a variety of political backgrounds and occupations risked their freedom in protests against communist policies and one-party rule in what they called the peaceful revolution. [excerpt
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The accidental opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9th, 1989, dismantled the political narratives...
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in History Today. Included with kind permis...
The story of the fall of the Berlin Wall was an aspect of the “imagination gap” that we had to wrest...
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, resulted from a complex pattern of causes, includin...
This article deals with the iconology of the Berlin Wall from its construction, in August 1961, to i...
Almost thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has become all too easy to say that the Wa...
Observers have long regarded Berlin and the construction of the Wall that divided it as central to t...
Twenty-five years have passed since the citizens of GDR protested successfully against the German So...
From early contact between hunter-gatherer tribes, through the Middle Ages and to even modern times,...
“Boundaries of Freedom: An American History of the Berlin Wall” is an interdisciplinary study of rep...
Berlin was the location in which most of the intelligence operations in Europe have taken place in t...
1. “What Came Down Was the Wall and What Stood Up Was the People,” by Shi Zhe, a translation of an o...
Almost thirty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has become all too easy to say that the Wa...
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