Essay: Mikhail Gorbachev – five things you need to know
In an article first published on The Conversation, JONATHAN DAVIS – associate professor in modern European history at Anglia Ruskin University, looks at five facts about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev…
The Long Read: Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse
RALPH BOULTON and GUY FAULCONBRIDGE, of Reuters, write about the life and legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev who died this week at age 91…
STRANGESIGHTS: A POPPY THIEVING PIGEON; A MARATHON EFFORT; AND, A SWEET ENDING FOR THE BERLIN WALL…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
ESSAY: HOW DIVISIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST GERMANY PERSIST 30 YEARS AFTER REUNIFICATION
In an article first published on The Conversation, GARETH DALE, of Brunel University London, looks at the causes of continuing divisions in Germany…
Berlin conference recalls role of Christian ecumenical assembly in mobilising dissent ahead of the fall of Berlin Wall
A conference in Berlin has recalled how in 1989 an ecumenical assembly mobilised dissent in the former East Germany in the run-up to a peaceful revolution that led to the collapse of communism and the end of the Berlin Wall. Meeting three times between February, 1988, and April, 1989, the Ecumenical Assembly brought together Protestant, […]
ESSAY: THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL – HAS EUROPE LEARNED NOTHING?
As Europe celebrates the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, MAL FLETCHER warns that European governments may be in danger of once again ignoring the will of the people..
20 years since the Wall fell: In a church near Berlin Wall site, leaders remember in candlelight vigils
Ecumenical News International Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, officials have returned to a church in what was East Berlin, where protests of candlelit prayers helped bring down communism in East Germany. Germany’s political and church leaders marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on 9th November with […]
ESSAY: RECALLING THE “OVERWHELMING SCENES” OF FAMILIES REUNITED ON THE DAY THE WALL FELL
Born of German parents, NILS VON KALM remembers the day the wall came down and his own emotional visit to Berlin some time later…
20TH ANNIVERSARY: THE BERLIN WALL FELL IN MANY PLACES
Twenty years after the world witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, STEPHEN BROWN reflects on its significance at the time – in Germany and elsewhere around the world…