Czechoslovakia Behind The Curtain : Life, Work And Culture In The Communist Era Paperback

Thomas Murphy

During the Cold War, the West tended to paint communism with a broad brush, defining it simply as all that was evil about the Eastern Bloc and presuming it was more or less the same everywhere. Yet culture and geography contributed to different forms of communist society in different places. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 former citizens, the author describes day-to-day life in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Their recollections paint a more complex picture of the life on the other side of the Iron Curtain, from the beginning of Soviet control in 1960 through the 1990 formation of the democratic Czech Republic.

1476672806

English

McFarland & Co Inc

30 September 2018

170

Thomas Murphy taught American history and culture for the Open Society Foundation from 1997-1999 in Slovakia. From 1999 until the present he has served as professor of history and government in multiple countries for the University of Maryland's European Division.