To mark the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall and the important political events that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective has published several articles and a podcast.  Please click on the links below to read about and listen to analyses of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

“Remember, Remember the 9th of November” The Fall of the Berlin Wall 25 Years On

1989: The Year That Changed It All

Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

Additionally, Origins has publised a book review of Willard Sunderland's The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution by PhD student Mark Sokolsky.