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The Magic Lantern: the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague

By - Garton Ash, Timothy
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Vintage Books, New York, ©1993
ISBN 10 - 0679740481
ISBN 13 - 9780679740483
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Eastern Europe , Politics and government
Shelf No - 4
Call Number - 947.085 GAR
Physical Description - 167 pages ; 21 cm.
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The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary elections—in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory—or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power. This book is a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects are still being felt today. As Garton Ash writes in an incisive new afterword, from the perspective of three decades later: “Freedom’s battle is never finally won. It must be fought anew in every generation.”

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