What has really been happening in Eastern Europe in the 1980s? Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, reveals that the answer lies not with the party secretaries but with artists and poets. He turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed in their attempts to transform the Eastern European into "homo sovieticus".
- ISBN10 0674081269
- ISBN13 9780674081260
- Publish Date 24 March 1992 (first published 27 August 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English