A scene from the film Comrade Couture, which tells the story of the underground fashion scene in the German Democratic RepublicSabine von Oettingen In 1980s East Germany, there was a group of ...

Tim Mohr, the journalist and translator who chronicled the political importance of the 1980s East German punk scene and co-wrote memoirs with Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss leader Paul Stanley, ...

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to perform a routine set to Bizet’s opera Carmen.

Contemporary works are casting a new light on sentimentality for Communism. By Evan Moffitt WHEN THE ARTIST Henrike Naumann first saw “The Flintstones” on TV, she thought it depicted what life was ...