The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism - Hardcover

Rosenberg, Tina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679422153 ISBN 13: 9780679422150

Publisher: Random House, 1995

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Review:

Rosenberg's previous book, Children of Cain, dealt with the change from dictatorship to democracy in South America. Here, she approaches a similar theme in Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism, telling a series of riveting human stories to illuminate the paradox that rabid anti-Communism at times resembles Communism. In the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and the former East Germany, she talks to erstwhile dissidents now victimized because they are named in old police registers; to low-level agents accused of crimes that were not crimes when committed; and to high officials who now run things just like before. She convincingly suggests that the best antidote to Communism may be, not revenge, but "tolerance and the rule of law."

From the Publisher:

"Tina Rosenberg has traveled around the ruins of a fallen empire and she has returned with astonishing tales of human memory and struggle. The Haunted Land is the best portrait of post-imperial Eastern Europe around."--David Remnick, author of Lenin's Tomb

"Brilliant and impassioned... The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms."--David Rieff, Los Angeles Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679422153
• ISBN 13: 9780679422150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 461