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About the product What does today’s inhabitant of Russia 30-40 years remember about the Eastern bloc? Metal constructors from the GDR? Romanian sneakers? A Czechoslovak animated series about the adventures of a mole? Meanwhile, our countries have a lot in common in history, and the history of not only the past, but also the present. The authors of this book, journalist Dmitry Akrest and Yegor Sennikov, give readers a fascinating excursion to the events that took place in the countries of the social bloc. • How is beer and revolution related? • How to organize lustration? • What drugs are there under socialism? The history of Poland, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania contains a huge number of stories — contradictory, complex and interesting. Here is propaganda and the shadow economy, dissidents and informers, Wang and Walesa. This is the second book that has grown out of the popular VKontakte public — vk.com/ussrchaosss (150,000 subscribers). The first book, She Fell apart, is devoted to everyday Russian and Soviet history from 1985 to 1999 — after the collapse of the USSR. Abstract How are beer and revolution related? How to organize lustration? What drugs are there under socialism? The socialist project in Eastern Europe ended 30 years ago — the democrats came to power in the Warsaw Pact states, and the communists are in the past. The history of the socialist bloc contains a huge number of plots — contradictory, complex and interesting (propaganda and the shadow economy, dissidents and informers, Wang and Walesa). The authors of this book, journalists Dmitry Akrest and Yegor Sennikov, will talk about how the countries of the former social bloc lived (from Poland and Hungary to the GDR and Czechoslovakia), why the visionary political project in them ended so quickly and why today many of them have turned to Euroscepticism. …
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