89: The Unfinished Revolution: Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe - Couverture souple

Thorpe, Nick J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906702179 ISBN 13 : 9781906702175

Editeur : Reportage Press, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a personal view, from ground level, of a revolution which never quite finished. Of how it re-emerges, in demonstrations and uprisings, on a regulars basis. How the demons of the past - of collaboration, of unsatisfied national identity, above all of poverty, continue to haunt the present. Blood drips on Thorpe's head as he tries to escape the Romanian secret police, with a dissident's statement hidden in his clothes. Then as the Hungarian government prepares to expel him, he becomes a pawn in the Cold War as the British threaten to retaliate. Through the autumn and winter of 1989, Thorpe hops from revolution to revolution, from Budapest to Prague, Lepzeig to East Berlin. And gets to Romania in time for the bloody finale. But with the victory of democracy, his work was only just beginning. Thorpe guides us through the dramas and traumas of the 1990s, the years of 'jungle capitalism' through a taxi blockade in Hungary, and the miners' invasion of Bucharest. He camps with Vaclev Havel - who borrows his sleeping bag. As Yugoslavia collapses, he reports from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia. The book concludes at the end of September 2009, with the impact of the crisis of capitalism, 20 years after the crisis of communism. Part of the proceeds from the sale of '89: The Unfinished Revolution will go to Alternatal, which promotes gentle birth in Eastern Europe (home birth is illegal in Hungary).

Biographie de l'auteur

Nick Thorpe began reporting from Budapest in February 1986, the first western journalist to be based there. For the BBC, the Independent and the Observer he covered the dying years of eastern Europe's regimes, then the revolutions which toppled them. He witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, the transformation of nonviolent to violent resistance in Kosovo. As the BBC's Central Europe correspondent he continues to report the successes, and the failures of a revolution which never quite reaches its goal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reportage Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906702179
• ISBN 13: 9781906702175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Éditeur: Whitehouse Rosie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible