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Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism

Categorie	Oost-Europa
Boeknummer	#410355-XQ30
Titel	Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism
Auteur	Molloy, Peter
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Washington, DC : National Geographic Books
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	184607617X
ISBN13	9781846076176
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Illustrated with some photographs in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting	There was life before the fall. 1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals a rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption. In fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From political leaders, athletes and pop stars, to cooks, miners and cosmonauts, the stories collected in Bloc Life evoke the moods, preoccupa... (Lees verder)tions and experiences of a world that vanished almost overnight.
Pagina's	314
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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