In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John
Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the
fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in
the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell - from
politicians and scholars to trade unionists and grass roots
activists. What he discovers makes for fascinating, if sometimes
disturbing, reading. From the Polish scholar who left academia to
become head of personnel at Ikea to the Hungarian politician who
turned his back on liberal politics to join the far-right Jobbik
party, Feffer meets a remarkable cast of characters. He finds that
years of free-market reforms have failed to deliver prosperity,
corruption and organized crime are rampant, while optimism has
given way to bitterness and a newly invigorated nationalism. Even
so, through talking to the region's many extraordinary activists,
Feffer shows that against stiff odds hope remains for the region's
future.
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