The ghosts of Europe - Anna Porter
Central Europe's past and uncertain future
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In 1989, Adam Michnik said that Central Europe came “as a messenger not only of freedom and tolerance but also of hatred and intolerance. It is here, in Central Europe, that the last two wars began.” Nearing the twentieth anniversary of Communism’s collapse, acclaimed author Anna Porter traveled to Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary to discover whether and how democracy has taken root in these former Iron Curtain countries. The former borderlands of the long-defunct Hapsburg Empire and the more recently dispersed Soviet Empire have attempted to invent their own forms of democracy and capitalism. However, disturbing signs of old attitudes have returned, bringing into question Central Europe’s ability to reform its elites and to effectively control public demonstrations of hatred, the rise of racial tensions, and the emergence of fascist parties. Porter interviewed the young and the old, the winners and the losers, in this grand European transformation. Porter walks Wenceslas Square with those wh...
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2011Uitgever: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0312681224ISBN-13: 9780312681227Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Porter, Anna] [Pagina's: 310] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York, St. Martin's Press] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: Ghosts of Europe. Central Europe's Past and Uncertain Future]
