After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few
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Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insigh
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In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and ind
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Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe w
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Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter in the Trapp Family Singers, offers readers the real story behind an American clas
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The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world. In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activ
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West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification pro
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'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .'
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A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and h
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The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various
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