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Author Shore, Marci.

Title The taste of ashes : the afterlife of totalitarianism in Eastern Europe / Marci Shore.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
©2013

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 Moore Stacks  HN380.7.A8 S56 2013    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xiv, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Contents The taste of ashes -- A wrinkle in time -- Truth -- "Hair is like garbage" -- "Everything I know about people I learned in the camps" -- "It was only a small revolution" -- Pornography in Prague -- "The human being is rather perverse" -- Reason and conscience -- A Galician summer -- "Think about whether or not I was right" -- The other side of Stalinism -- The locomotive of history -- Cemeteries -- Broken families -- The eternally wandering Jew -- The dead and the living -- "But not in the ovens" -- Children of the revolution -- The taste of caviar -- Files -- "Everything was so unattractive" -- Unrequited love -- A star of the stage -- Lustration -- God-seeking -- Tragedy and romance.
Summary Yale historian and prize-winning author Shore illuminates the afterlife of totalitarianism in this 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.
Yale historian and prize-winning author Shore illuminates the afterlife of totalitarianism in this 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.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989-
Eastern Europe.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1989-
Subject Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism.
Social change -- Europe, Eastern.
Social change.
Social psychology -- Europe, Eastern.
Social psychology.
Shore, Marci -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.
Shore, Marci.
Travel.
ISBN 9780307888815
0307888819
9780307888839 eISBN
0307888835 eISBN