Returning to History: a Journey to the New Eastern Europe
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"Revisiting History" is a record of Eva Hoffman's travels in Eastern Europe. She returned to her hometown in 1989 to witness how Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia, which was splitting into two countries, "made their history." Through conversations with local people from all walks of life and faithful records of what they saw and felt, this book presents the changes in politics, economy, thought, culture, and daily life in Eastern Europe at that time. In the countries that Hoffman traveled to, change was almost a common desire, and with the exception of Romania, change was accomplished in a completely non-violent manner and with almost no resistance from the ruling powers. As history changes, this is the best-case scenario, a revolution wrapped in a soft and smooth coat. But the deeper transformations that take place there are actually more dramatic and often directionless.
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