A dossier to mark the 80th anniversary of the unification of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in April 1946.
In this article we explore the question of how people’s relationship to their own history changes during the transition from capitalism to socialism, and discuss this issue using concrete examples drawn from the experience of socialist development in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
In this article, we explore economic problems and debates in the DDR during the period of socialist construction (1950–1962). In the struggle against Western subversion and Yugoslav ideas of ‘self-managed socialism’, the DDR erected a foundational architecture for both its practical planning policy and the field of political economy.
A response to Die Linke leader Heidi Reichinnek that the GDR was not socialist and we have nothing to learn from it.
A new book on health care in Soviet Georgia, the DDR, and socialist Yugoslavia.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the unrest during 17 June 1953 in the German Democratic Republic (“East Germany”). With this dossier of translated article excerpts, we want to shed light on significant aspects of the events and make them accessible to an international audience.
