Taste of Ashes The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe

Name: Taste of Ashes The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9780307888822

ISBN-10: 0307888827

ISBN-13: 9780307888822

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Authors: Marci Shore

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An inventive, wholly original look at the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. In the tradition of Timothy Garton Ash’s The File, Yale historian and prize-winning author Marci Shore draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the afterlife of totalitarianism. The Taste of Ashes spans from Berlin to Moscow, moving from Vienna in Europe’s west through Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw and Bucharest to Vilnius and Kiev in the post-communist east. The result is a shimmering literary examination of the ghost of communism – no longer Marx’s “specter to come” but a haunting presence of the past. Marci Shore builds…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Marci Shoreis assistant professor of history at Yale University.