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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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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Ratings of Universities 2: Search for a paradigm of higher education against the background of the global crisis and balkanization by Konstantin Lidin

“…During the period between the fall of the Iron Curtain (1986) and the beginning of the global crisis (2008) Russian universities made an attempt to switch over to graduation of specialists that would be able to meet competition in the international market for intellectual labour. …”
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Oikonymic Transformations in Romania in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Oliviu Felecan

“…It was an homage paid to the Soviet leader, whose name could be identified in another 13 oikonyms in the Eastern bloc, behind the Iron Curtain: Stalingrad — Volgograd (USSR), Stalin — Varna (Bulgaria), Stalinstadt — Eisenhüttenstadt (German Democratic Republic), Stalinograd — Katowice (Poland), Stalino — Donețk (Ukraine), and Sztálinváros — Dunaújváros (Hungary), among others. …”
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Whole Genome Sequencing and Metabolomic Study of Cave Streptomyces Isolates ICC1 and ICC4 by Jessica Thandara Gosse, Soumya Ghosh, Amanda Sproule, David Overy, Naowarat Cheeptham, Christopher N. Boddy

“…This secondary metabolite potential may contribute to the fitness of ICC1 and ICC4 in the Iron Curtain Cave.…”
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Den Kalten Krieg spielen. Brett- und Computerspiele in der Systemkonfrontation by Florian Greiner, Maren Röger

“…During the Cold War, millions of people on both sides of the Iron Curtain played board and digital games – in living rooms, barracks and schools. …”
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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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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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The role of saintly personalities in popular discourses from around 1970 on Baroque artistic cultures by Ivan Gerát

“…This article identifies a number of concepts that have been used in popular discourse on Baroque art, architecture and visual culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. These concepts are associated with the visual cult of the saints, and especially those that depicted their images, visions and emotions. …”
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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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Nicolae Ceaușescu and Polish „Solidarity” (Solidarność) by Ilarion Ţiu

“…Ceaușescu called in the action the states bellow the Iron Curtain in order to defend the socialism in Poland.…”
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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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Constructing the City of Solidarity: Alfred Roth’s Elementary School in Skopje by Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Vladimir Deskov, Jovan Ivanovski

“…For more than a decade, abundance of aid has been coming from the both sides of the Iron Curtain. In a short but high in intensity period of approximately 15 years, the city underwent a process of reconstruction that changed entirely its appearance and the quality of living. …”
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Progress of rehabilitation of large housing estates in Katowice (Poland) by Agata Warchalska-Troll

“…Large housing estates (LHEs) built during the communist era in the countries behind the ‘Iron Curtain’, nowadays, are places of residence for 20–30% of their population, covering a considerable amount of space in many cities. …”
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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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