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Communism

East Germans crowd around and on the Berlin Wall the day after the gates opened for free movement in 1989

What happened after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

How is the image of revolutionary Che Guevara commodified? Alex von Tunzelmann explores. (Photo by Francois ANCELLET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Che Guevara: face of the revolution

A portrait of Karl Marx, the German economist, sociologist and philosopher who is known for his work the 'Communist Manifesto'. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Karl Marx: who was he, what was the Communist Manifesto and why is he important?

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

Did the Cold War ever really end?

German social, political and economic theorist Karl Marx (1818 - 1883). (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

The Library Karl Marx: the godfather of revolution

Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries

A new career in a new town: The image of David Bowie used for the cover of “Heroes”, the musician’s 1977 Berlin-recorded album. The cover photo was inspired by a painting by German artist Erich Heckel, whose subject strikes a similar pose. (Image by Getty Images)

Bowie’s Berlin: the city that shaped a 1970s masterpiece

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin

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After Partition: colony politics and the rise of communism in Bengal

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda

Q&A Where did the famous portrait of Che Guevara come from?

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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War

The 19th-century political and social theorist Karl Marx; co-author (with Friedrich Engels) of The Communist Manifesto (1848). (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83)