The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central EuropeEssays on the political flwering in Poland and Hungary, in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and on the decline of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and the rise of West German influence in Middle Europe. |
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Sketches from Another Germany | 3 |
Comrade Brecht | 26 |
The Pope in Poland | 42 |
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