After the Wall: East Meets West in the New Berlin

Lucy Despard, John Borneman

Foreign Affairs · 1991 · 103 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The many and the one - Berlin the Autumn Revolution of 1989 one night in Jericho - The Wall comes down becoming socialist walled in without a home - exile of the spirit in the GDR state fantasy and desire - images of the West beyond the Wall fear, guilt and revenge becoming capitalist transitions - crossing the Wall the election and the end of the revolution.