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Apr 19, 2022 · Although Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his fighting name Lenin, died in 1924, his Marxist theories in particular had a decisive influence on the GDR and its development. by Jörn Kleinhardt (19 Apr 2022) Topic DDR. According to Stalin's definition, the ideology of Marxism-Leninism was »Marx's teachings further developed by Lenin ...
Nov 4, 2023 · Rebuilding East Germany after the War was a colossal physical and human task. It took ten years to clear all the rubble from Dresden after bombing by the Allies. In the mid-1950s there was a permanent shortage of people to fill professional jobs. From 1955-1957, years of economic crisis, an average of 300,000 left for the FRG each year.
- Ian Linden
May 13, 2009 · Wolfgang Becker's film Good Bye Lenin! has been touted as the most representative example of ostalgie, and is used here as a text to examine the complex questions about looking back on everyday life during communism's fall. Through its use of nostalgic themes, the film simultaneously embraces and derides the Western values that became an indelible part of the post-1989 landscape, and thus ...
- Timothy Barney
- 2009
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) regarded itself as the first Socialist state on German soil, the governmental structure of which was to be based on the principles of ‘democratic centralism’, in other words on the principles established by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin for the leadership of Communist parties. The representative assembly of the ...
East Germany was a socialist nation, formed in 1949 following the division of Germany into two parts. It was, in many respects, the epicentre of the Cold War – a border zone where the Soviet bloc and the West abutted, and a proving ground for socialist economic policies. While these policies produced some gains, they failed to improve the ...
Feb 10, 2023 · It was even an official spokesperson for the SED, Günther Schabowski, who on 9 November 1989 conveyed the momentous Politburo decision about new travel regulations, which effectively meant, as Western journalists and East Germans alike rapidly realized, that the wall would no longer serve its previous function — exercised for some twenty-seven years — of keeping East Germans inside the ...
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The movie Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) was a spectacular success. More than 6.4 million moviegoers saw the film in Germany in 2003, and it went on to be marketed in 65 countries. A tragicomedy, Good Bye, Lenin! tells the story of the Kerners, an East German family. The plot in a nutshell: after the father flees the GDR for the West, the mother is ...
