La notion de Mur en Slovénie : de la Yougoslavie à la limite Schengen by Laurent HASSID

“…If the aspects of Slovenian borders have changed from the Iron Curtain until the opening of the Schengen space, the main point is to consider the notion of Border-Wall not just as a major political and economic difference, but also as the integration of those who live “on the other side of the border“ that is to say, the integration of the nations in the Balkans.…”
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'The Beast from the East' by Katharina Wiedlack

“…I argue that the fictional killers embody North American fears surrounding the mobility of the Cold War Other in the aftermath of the fall of the so-called Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. …”
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Political Experience in Economic and Social Transformation by Christoph Bergner

“…The economic and social transformation of East Germany took place with its accession to the German Constitution. The fall of the “Iron Curtain” gave the process of globalisation a considerable acceleration, which in turn made strengthening competitiveness a growing challenge for German politics.…”
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Monitoring oxytocin signaling in the brain: More than a love story by Inga D. Neumann

“…In this short narrative review I was invited to provide a personal overview on my scientific journey closely linked to my research on the brain OXT system and the adventures associated with starting my research career behind the Iron Curtain.…”
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0260 Vienna as a Sculptural Centre in the Long 19th Century by Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz, Caroline Mang

“…An international group of researchers is now tackling these connections, a century after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and decades after the partial division of Europe by the Iron Curtain.…”
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The relationes ad limina of the German Bishops by Tacchi, Francesco

“…In their abundance of information, these documents make it possible, among other things, to shed light on the episcopate’s view of the material and moral condition of the German Catholic population in the immediate post-war period and in the 1950s, as well as on the situation of the Catholic Church in the two German states (FRG and GDR) separated by the ‘Iron Curtain’. In the last years of Pius XII’s pontificate, a cause of great concern for the ecclesiastical hierarchy was on the one hand ‘practical’ materialism in a West Germany that was experiencing a phase of rapid economic growth, and on the other dialectical materialism in an East Germany under Soviet influence. …”
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Popular Hymnody and Lived Catholicism in Hungary in the 1970s–1980s by Kinga Povedák

“…Post-Vatican popular hymnody, a catalyst for a new style of devotional practices, is understood as “performed theology” behind the Iron Curtain expressing relationality, as it actualizes and manifests spiritual, eschatological, and ecclesial relationships.…”
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I Dream of Being a Beautiful Princess but I Am a Socialist Girl: The Psychological and Ideological Aspects of the Illustrations for the Fairy Tale “Cinderella” in Bulgaria in the S... by Katerina Zdravkova Gadjeva

“…This article focuses on the images of one of the best-known fairy tales recorded by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, “Cinderella,” and looks for an answer to the question of how, in the second half of the 20th century, when the world was divided by the Iron Curtain, the socialist ideology attempted to make a “visual translation” of the story, which had been known for centuries, thus sending new aesthetic and political messages to adolescents. …”
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Nelehké návraty : český exil a pád železné opony by Ondřej Haváč

“…The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 meant the cardinal breaking point for states in Central Europe which affected their diaspora in the same way. …”
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THE ECCLESIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE LETTER OF THE POLISH BISHOPS TO THE GERMAN BISHOPS OF 1965 by Żmudziński Marek

“…They also influenced the life of the Church in a universal way, because its members found themselves of both sides of the Iron Curtain. This was particularly visible in Polish-German relations. …”
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Réseaux de villes et processus de recomposition des niveaux : le cas des villes baltiques by Nicolas Escach, Lise Vaudor

“…The intense cooperation among municipalities in the Baltic Sea Region since the 1990s and the fall of the Iron Curtain is part of this issue. This has led to the emergence of inequalities between large metropolitan areas which have obtained a very high level of internationalization, and medium-sized cities whose influence is currently limited to the Baltic region alone.…”
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Un rideau de fer entre la Russie et l’Union Européenne ? by Sophie Ollivier

“…The dissensions and the conflicts in countries which Russia considers as belonging to its area of influence, the competition between Russians and Westerners in strategic areas such as the Caucasus, create a climate which reminds onlookers of the climate of the Cold War and the terms « wall » « iron curtain » are frequently used by statesmen and commentators. …”
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Implications of the war in Ukraine on the Belt and Road Initiative by Vladimir Prebilič, Vid Jereb

“…The transport and energy flows of BRI will be disrupted due to the new Iron Curtain descending across Europe in the form of sanctions against aggressors in the war in Ukraine. …”
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Gained in Translation. Postmodern Architecture in Late Soviet Lithuania by Martynas Mankus

“…The phenomenon of postmodernism developed beyond the borders of the Soviet world, so the so-called “cultural logic of late capitalism” crossing the boundaries of the Iron Curtain has to be considered a consequence of globalization. …”
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‘World Art Histories and the Cold War’ by Robert Born

“…In the two decades after World War II there were a series of panoramic overviews about the development of art published in both sides of the Iron Curtain. These include Mikail V. Alpatov’s “Vseobshchaya istoriya iskusstv” (The general history of art, 1948–1949), Arnold Hauser’s “Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur” (The social history of art and literature, 1953), as well as, providing a counter-model to a certain degree, Ernst H. …”
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Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

“…Moreover, Stoppard’s political commitment and his concern about what was happening behind the Iron Curtain tend to show him in a new light. Finally, I examine the way in which history is performed throughout the play and the impact it may have had on the audience at the time.…”
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Europe’s Fe/Male Identity by Mihály Vilma

“…Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech. Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Meditation on Europe. …”
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Memories from the future: constative and performed identities in ideologized spaces by Felix Nicolau

“…And after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Southeast European space preserved mass nostalgia: Stalin, Tito and Ceausescu are still guardianship figures for many of various social categories. …”
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Borderlands in times of crisis: The possibility of de-marginalisation of the Polish border zone with Russia after the outbreak of war in Ukraine by Studzińska Dominika

“…The Polish-Russian border, closed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, transformed into an iron curtain without any chance for its disappearance in a long-term perspective. …”
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Transitional Justice and the Holocaust in Poland by Frydel Tomasz

“…The current state of research points to two emerging stories of Polish judicial reckoning with the Holocaust “behind the Iron Curtain.” On the one hand, scholars increasingly agree that the trials were not politically orchestrated but were generally conducted in the spirit of the rule of law, comparable to those held in Western European courts. …”
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