Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe - Softcover

Ash, Timothy Garton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679731997 ISBN 13: 9780679731993

Publisher: Vintage, 1990

Synopsis

Political Science "This is a kind of writing - it could be called the history of the present-for which it is not easy to find examples in earlier literature. " As stated in the Boston globe, "The power of his prose is reminiscent of George Orwell."

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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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Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679731997
• ISBN 13: 9780679731993
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 339