商品簡介
During the Cold War, the West—especially in the popular media—tended to view communism as a monolithic phenomenon, with little variation throughout the Eastern Bloc. Yet culture and geography contributed to social diversity among and within communist systems. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 Czechs and Slovaks, the author provides new perspective on day-to-day life in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Their recollections paint a more complex picture of the life on the other side of the Iron Curtain, from the Sputnik era reforms of the early 1960s, through the tumult of the 1968 Prague Spring and subsequent Soviet invasion, to the Velvet Revolution, the collapse of the Communist regime and the formation of Democratic Czechoslovakia in 1989.
作者簡介
Dr. Thomas K. Murphy taught American history and culture at university for the Open Society Foundation from 1997–1999 in Slovakia. From 1999 he served as Collegiate Professor of history and government for the University of Maryland’s European Division. He lives and writes in Belgium and Italy.
