Nov 16, 2012
This book was recommended to me by a library patron who found the book very interesting and wanted to know how the book compared to my experiences growing up in Eastern Europe.
The premise of How we Survived Communism and Even Laughed is simply that, even though women also participated in all the revolutionary events of overthrowing the totalitarian regime in 1989, they were much less visible then men. The author traveled to Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Eastern Germany in 1990 at the time the new democracies formed in Eastern Europe, with a mission to learn about the lives