They fell off: how and why socialism ended in Eastern Europe

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30 years ago, a socialist project ended in Eastern Europe - democrats came to power in the Warsaw Treaty states, and the Communists remained in the past. The history of the socialist bloc has contained a huge number of plots - contradictory, complex and interesting (propaganda and shadow economics, dissidents and sound, Vanga and Valens).
The authors of this book, journalists Dmitry Tsrest and Egor Sennikov, will talk about how the countries of the former social unit (from Poland and Hungary to the GDR and Czechoslovakia) lived, why the visionary political project ended so quickly and why many of them today today Turned to Euroskepticism