But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter Schabowski during an otherwise boring press ...

Celtic would not play in round three until after Christmas, and then it would take them once more behind the Iron Curtain, ...

Steve Hideg was nearly broke when I met him in 2017, and wasn’t sure he’d be able to keep covering the rent on his humble little East Hollywood apartment. But I’d never encountered a more ...

That changed when the wall was opened Nov. 9, 1989 — 35 years ago Saturday. The infamous Iron Curtain was lifting. Democracy, at long last, was spreading to Eastern Europe. Once the Allied ...

For they have stuck to their positions on the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal even as China’s rigorous control over the city ...

The Polish pope, canonized by Francis in 2014, demonstrated throughout his life that faith and peaceful resistance could ...

Instead, it offered a multiplicity of artists-some famous, some practically unknown-who worked in different mediums and different sociopolitical contexts, all linked on one side of the Iron Curtain.

This volume explores relations between socialist planned economies of Central and East European countries and capitalist market economies of neutral states in Europe dyring the Cold War. It focuses on ...

The largest, most ambitious plan in Europe for transforming a military border centers on the Iron Curtain – a line of guard towers, walls, minefields and fences that stretched for thousands of miles, ...