By Ksenia Northmore-Ball (University of Nottingham; Email: Ksenia.Northmore-Ball@nottingham.ac.uk) Usually, if a loved one is unfortunate enough to suffer from Alzheimer’s, we think of bringing family photos and playing old tunes and films to jog their memory. But it would seem that in eastern Germany a retirement home has successfully taken more drastic measures to help restore memory … Continue reading Reviving lost memory by re-creating life in the socialist GDR
Media Review: The NYT on sex before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain
A recent article in the New York Times discusses the change in women's sexual life before and after Communism. "The generational divide between daughters and mothers who reached adulthood on either side of 1989 supports the idea that women had more fulfilling lives during the Communist era. And they owed this quality of life, in … Continue reading Media Review: The NYT on sex before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain