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
Offers an account of complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the revolutions of 1989 and the opening of the communist archives. This book draws upon intimate understanding to illuminate the af
"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a café called Ziemianska." Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish litera
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an ep
A revisionary analysis of the complex psyche of Eastern Europe in the wake of the 1989 revolutions and the opening of the communist archives draws on the author's interviews with colleagues, friends,
A mosaic of memories from a childhood in the Warsaw Ghetto and a life in hiding on the other side of the wall When six-year-old Michal Glowinski first heard the adults around him speak of the ghetto,
