GDR – People's World

Hans Modrow, 1928-2023: Son of the German Democratic Republic

February 22, 2023 By Keith Barlow

The man who oversaw the peaceful yet tragic end to state socialism in the east, then stayed to fight for the working class in the newly unified Germany, passed away on February 10, aged 95.

Bertolt Brecht (and me)

February 13, 2023 By Victor Grossman

Regardless of his sometimes sharp but always constructive criticism, Brecht supported the GDR attempt to build a socialist state in Germany with all his heart.

Will it be the Kaiser’s ghost or a peace policy that prevails in Germany?

August 11, 2021 By Victor Grossman

That seems to be the big unanswered question on this, the 60th anniversary, of the Berlin Wall.

Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century

January 15, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

The World Federation of Democratic Youth, a pro-Communist network of student and young people’s organizations based in Prague, published World Student News, a magazine gently trying to promote peaceful coexistence and socialist politics. The magazine carried...

New York-born GI who defected to the East back in USA

May 22, 2019 By Cameron Orr

Grossman is speaking about his new book: A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. The book tells about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990 and reasons for the fall of socialism...