1st Edition

Voices in a Revolution The Collapse of East German Communism

By Melvin J. Lasky Copyright 1992
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European democracy. It is unlikely that any comparable memoir will be written, since Lasky's career spanned the... Read more
1: Before the Breakdown; 2: Inside the Police State; 3: The Ornithology of Revolution; 4: Reiner Kunze & the Unlovely Years; 5: Wolf Biermann & His Guitar; 6: An Anatomy of a Wayward Intelligentsia; 7: A Lost Nation?; 8: Güinter Grass & a Hollow Tin Drum; 9: Janka, or Difficulties with the Truth; 10: Coda

Biography

Melvin J. Lasky