Politics and Contemporary History in Germany – Background

Political culture is used to refer to the "soft" factors in politics: political beliefs, attitudes and values characteristic of a society. It has to do with collective mentalities, which have an emotional or intellectual basis and which are distinctive for the identity of a community.More ...

With his policy of “perestroika”, Michael Gorbachev wanted to renew socialism in the Soviet Union.More ...

“Coming to terms” with the past: all legal, scholarly and public and private efforts to treat the National Socialist regime of terror and its crimes.More ...

The efforts that have been made to critically examine and reappraise the communist system in the former GDR started 1989/90 and have lasted right up to the present day.More ...