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“The GDR — the better Germany?” — A LECTURE BY MATTHIAS KRAUSS
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.
“The Voice of the People” — ON THE DEATH OF MIKIS THEODORAKIS
Anlässlich des Todes von Mikis Theodorakis am 2. September 2021 befragte die IF DDR Hartmut König, ehemaliger FDJ-Sekretär für internationale Arbeit und Kultur und bekannter Liedermacher, über seine Erinnerungen an Mikis und dessen Einfluss auf die Singebewegung in der DDR.
“Following-up on Solidarity Work” — INTERVIEW IN THE JUNGE WELT
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.
Event: The Land to Those Who Work It
On 24 October, we will diuscuss the third volume of our “Studies on the DDR” at an online event together with our partners at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In conversation with Miguel Stedile of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and Max from the IF DDR, we will place the experience of the DDR’s land reform and agricultural development in the context of today’s struggles for land and a better life for peasants.
“Plan together – work together – govern together!”
An examination of the theory and praxis of socialist democracy in the German Democratic Republic (DDR).
Dossier: The Founding of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
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.
On the Question of Consciousness during Socialist Construction
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).
The Road to “Socialist Commodity Production”
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.
Yes, the German Democratic Republic was socialist—and we have much to learn from it
A response to Die Linke leader Heidi Reichinnek that the GDR was not socialist and we have nothing to learn from it.
