The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe - Hardcover

Ash, Timothy Garton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394575733 ISBN 13: 9780394575735

Publisher: Random House, 1989

Synopsis

Essays depict the culture and politics of Central Europe and view the social change taking place within the socialist system

About this title

From the Publisher:

"This collection will endure because it depicts so exactly, and often presciently, the region on the brink of its most dramatic political transformation since the early years of the Cold War."--The Wilson Quarterly

From Library Journal:

As dramatic events continue to unfold in Central and Eastern Europe, this timely collection of articles is to be welcomed. Although all of these essays previously appeared in various U.K. and U.S. publications, including the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement , they retain the reader's interest, both by the high quality of the writing and also by the nature of the subjects covered. These include the German "question," the Holocaust, repression in Prague, hope in Budapest, and a look at daily life in East Germany. Garton Ash, a polyglot Oxford scholar, serves up clear and thought-provoking analyses of life near and behind the rapidly disappearing Iron Curtain. Highly recommended for most libraries.
- Ian Wallace, Food Research and Devleopment Centre Lib., St. Hyacinthe, Quebec
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0394575733
• ISBN 13: 9780394575735
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335