Surprisingly, sexuality has not been at the centre of scholarship on post-war Central and Eastern Europe. While neighbouring topics, such as gender or everyday life, have thoroughly wonderfully researched (the list here is too long, but let me mention least some shining examples), somehow escaped spotlight. Path-breaking research done by Dagmar Herzog East Germany Dan Healey Soviet Russia was f...

The two states that emerged from the defeated Germany were central to the development of the cold war. Rapidly evolving from defeated objects of Four Power policy, the two Germanys became important actors in their own right on the front line of the cold war. Both superpowers initially treated their part of Germany as war booty to be plundered and kept weak, but as the cold war developed, they w...