Last week, as East Germany prepared for this month’s quadrennial Socialist Unity Party Congress—which will be graced by the presence of none other than Soviet Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev ...

Thuringia, a state that used to form part of East Germany, was the site of the elections that handed the AfD this victory, with the party garnering 32.8 percent of the vote. Germany’s largest ...

Gysi, a criminal defence lawyer in East Germany who later headed the successor to the Communist Party, rebuked AfD politician Stephan Brandner for branding other parties' rejection of its motions ...

Their goal: Germany's reunification. On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after the election for the East German parliament, the People's Chamber.

Could the new party still be a kingmaker ... "Half of the people in Germany fear getting roped into a big war, in the east it is a majority," Wagenknecht said. According to her, a state government ...

The son of high-ranking Stalinist party functionaries, Gysi took over the chairmanship of East Germany’s state party in late 1989 to support the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic.