Voices in a Revolution : The Collapse of East German Communism

ISBN-13: 9781412805506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 126 str.

Melvin J. Lasky

Opis

A featured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"-Mel, you have won In his extraordinary account of thefinal days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoningof a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of Europeandemocracy, Melvin J. Lasky. It is unlikely that any comparable memoir willbe written, since Lasky's career spanned the entire history of wartime andpostwar Germany,

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