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75th anni­ver­sary of the DDR: The signi­fi­cance of the land reform and coope­ra­tive move­ment in East German agriculture

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.

On 9 Novem­ber 1918, the German Empire was topp­led after mass upri­sings brought the monar­chy and First World War to an end. The achie­ve­ments and limi­ta­ti­ons of the Novem­ber Revo­lu­tion greatly shaped the deve­lo­p­ment of the German state in the fateful deca­des of the 1920s and 1930s. Analy­sing the histo­ri­cal lessons of the Novem­ber Revo­lu­tion has also been a crucial point of conten­tion within the German workers’ move­ment, for it raises the ques­tion of the working class’s rela­tion to state power. 

Profes­sio­nal ethics and health policy do not form a dicho­tomy. An article on working condi­ti­ons in the GDR’s health care system.

A lecture by Matthias Krauss, given at the confe­rence “The GDR in All-German History — Missed Oppor­tu­nity, Dead End, After­math,” an event orga­ni­zed by Helle Panke e.V. and the Rosa Luxem­burg Foun­da­tion in Berlin on Octo­ber 26, 2021.

On 06.05.2021, the German daily, the junge Welt inter­viewed two members of the Inter­na­tio­nal Rese­arch Center DDR (IF DDR) with regard to the back­drop, methods and objec­ti­ves of the center.