As a result of the end of the Cold War and the terminal decline of the Soviet Union, Germany was reunited in 1990, events I remember well. Since then, the question has been what role this new-old country will play. A third of a century later, we can say that the answer is profoundly depressing. A historian of the Soviet Union, I have never been one for …
The New Old Germany
History’s Monster is Back: Ugly, Mean, Yet Also Ludicrous
