“At the time, the Iron Curtain was down and the opportunity of ... “If you look at a map of Europe now, it more closely ...

Exhibition 'Klára Rotschild, fashion queen behind the Iron Curtain' 2021 The textile clothing ... putting Hungary on the European fashion map, making the front pages of the French fashion magazines.

As well as being a respected playwright, David Eldridge has earned plaudits for adaptation, especially Ibsen and notably ...

Lenox, Laney 2020. From Transitional to Transformative Justice and After the Berlin Wall: memory and making of the new Germany, 1989 to present. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 28, ...

De Graaf, Jan 2019. European socialism between militant and parliamentary democracy: a pan-European debate, 1945–8. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, Vol. 26, Issue. 2, p. 331.

A hilarious peek back behind the Iron Curtain near the Berlin Wall: Former East bloc comedians are bringing all the sad ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

One of the biggest such myths is that Reagan had a plan to bring down the “evil empire” and that it was his pressure that led ...

But it wasn’t always that way. Back in 1989, the world map was entirely different, with much of Eastern Europe languishing behind the Iron Curtain. Then in November that year the Berlin Wall ...

The Iron Curtain For his part, Stalin began creating what Winston Churchill would call the "Iron Curtain." "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," said Churchill, "an iron curtain ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

Maps are harder to smuggle than you might think ... Monopoly became an underground success, secretly coveted and played behind the Iron Curtain as a way of escaping the drudgery of Soviet life.