| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
Eastern European studies ; no. 16 |
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Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 16.
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| Contents |
Prologue: collapse and reanimation -- Buying illusions -- Bad luck or bad choice? -- Victims and victimizers -- Eye-opening experiences inside the prison -- Selling freedom -- Euphoria -- Deflation -- Nostalgia -- Epilogue: To whom we belong |
| Summary |
"For decades Americans imagined life under Communist regimes to be grim, frightening, and oppressive. Not so, Bulgarian-born Zlatko Anguelov reveals in this memoir. For the most part, life was just normal. People adjust; bread must be earned; families enjoy each other's company. If Communist governments were oppressive, that oppression became the norm for most people's lives; totalitarianism was mundane and even banal." "Yet in the morally ambivalent world of the communism in which Anguelov grew up, everyone was both victim and victimizer. Few dissented; few intended evil. More typical were tales of compliance, complicity, and informing on friends and neighbors just as part of getting by. Whether discussing his schooldays, his marriages, or his career, Anguelov inexorably returns to his theme of compliance. In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Anguelov, Zlatko, 1946-
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| SUBJECT |
Anguelov, Zlatko, 1946- fast |
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Communism and society.
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Communism and culture -- Bulgaria
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Communism and culture
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Communism and society
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Manners and customs
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Politics and government
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Communisme.
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Dagelijks leven.
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Balkan Peninsula.
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Bulgaria -- Politics and government -- 1944-1990 -- Philosophy
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Bulgaria -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Bulgaria
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| Genre/Form |
Herinneringen (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001006541 |
| ISBN |
1585449741 |
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9781585449743 |
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