How Grey Was Communism?
Communist states in Eastern Europe were imagined as places drained of all colour, outside of time – but it’s increasingly clear they were a lot more colourful than we were led to believe.
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George Bodie is working on a PhD about the GDR at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is a visiting lecturer at ECSP business school.
Communist states in Eastern Europe were imagined as places drained of all colour, outside of time – but it’s increasingly clear they were a lot more colourful than we were led to believe.