Voices in a Revolution: The Collapse of East German Communism

ISBN-13: 9781138540330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 124 str.

Melvin J. Lasky

Opis

Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European democracy

Spis treści

1: Before the Breakdown; 2: Inside the Police State; 3: The Ornithology of Revolution; 4: Reiner Kunze & the Unlovely Years; 5: Wolf Biermann & His Guitar; 6: An Anatomy of a Wayward Intelligentsia; 7: A Lost Nation?; 8: Güinter Grass & a Hollow Tin Drum; 9: Janka, or Difficulties with the Truth; 10: Coda

O autorze

Melvin J. Lasky