How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1993-05-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0060975407

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Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.


How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 1993-05-12

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.


How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Author: Slavenka Drakulić

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Essays discuss aspects of life under communism, including religion, political change, censorship, and consumer goods, and looks at the reasons for its failure


Café Europa Revisited

Café Europa Revisited

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0143134175

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"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection. Totalitarianism did not die overnight and democracy did not completely transform Eastern European societies. Looking closely at artefacts and day to day life, from the health insurance cards to national monuments, and popular films to cultural habits, alongside pieces of growing nationalism and Brexit, these pieces of political reportage dive into the reality of a Europe still deeply divided.


Café Europa

Café Europa

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0140277722

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“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” —Gloria Steinem Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much more of the small things—of sounds, looks and images." In this brilliant work of political reportage, filtered through her own experience, we see that Europe remains a divided continent. In the place of the fallen Berlin Wall there is a chasm between East and West, consisting of the different way people continue to live and understand the world. Little bits—or intimations—of the West are gradually making their way east: boutiques carrying Levis and tiny food shops called "Supermarket" are multiplying on main boulevards. Despite the fact that Drakulic can find a Cafe Europa, complete with Viennese-style coffee and Western decor, in just about every Eastern European city, the acceptance of the East by the rest of Europe continues to prove much more elusive.


Frida's Bed

Frida's Bed

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-08-26

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1440631794

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A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo?s life A few days before Frida Kahlo?s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, ?I hope the exit is joyful?and I hope never to return.? Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo?s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida?s Bed, Slavenka Drakulic´ explores the inner life of one of the world?s most influential female artists, skillfully weaving Frida?s memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo?s thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike.


The Balkan Express

The Balkan Express

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher:

Published: 1993-05-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393341225

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In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays not in the hardcover edition.


Castles Burning

Castles Burning

Author: Magda Denes

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780393039665

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When her family goes into hiding from the fascist Arrow-Cross, she is torn from the "castle" of intimacies shared with her adored and adoring older brother and plunged into a world of incomprehensible deprivation, separation, and loss. Her rage, and her ability to feel devastating sorrow and still to insist on life, will reach every reader at the core.


A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism

A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism

Author: Slavenka Drakulic

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0143118633

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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism, she offers a eight-part exploration of Communism by way of an unusual cast of narrators, each from a different country, who reflect on the fall of Communism. Together they constitute an Orwellian send-up of absurdities during the final years of European Communism that showcase this author's tremendous talent.


The Classic Slum

The Classic Slum

Author: Robert Roberts

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1990-07-26

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 014193235X

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A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.