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Post-communist stories : about cities, politics, desires

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  • Publisher:
    Cormorant Books, 2014
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Persky, Stan
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    2014
    Summary:

    Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall was pulled down by Berliners fed up with the division of their city, Stan Persky returns to Eastern Europe. In essays informative and insightful, he illuminates what some consider the final act the Second World War: the end of the occupation by the Soviets of Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic nations.

    Contents:
    • A Walk in Prague (2014)
    • The Iron Curtain
    • The Translators' Tale (Tirana, Albania, 1991)
    • Borkowicz's Death (Warsaw, 1990)
    • Árpád's Horsemen (Budapest, 1990)
    • Berlin and the Angel of History
    • City without Citizens (Budapest, 1993)
    • The Springtime of Nations: Zagreb (1993); Sofia (1993)
    • The Dead at Vilnius (1993)
    • 25 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (2014)
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science
    Subject(s): Europe, Central | Europe, Eastern | Politics and government | Social conditions | Intellectual life
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Cormorant Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781770864467, 1770864466, 9781770864474