The Assassin from Apricot City

Witold Szabłowski

Stork Press Ltd

What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door

History

Icon Books

An award-winning journalist’s incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives    For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.   In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuściński, award-winning Polish journalist Witold Szabłowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria’s dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground reporting—of smuggling a car into Ukraine, hitchhiking through Kosovo as it declares independence, arguing with Stalin-adoring tour guides at the Stalin Museum, sleeping in London’s Victoria Station alongside a homeless woman from Poland, and giving taxi rides to Cubans fearing for the life of Fidel Castro—provides a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.From the Introduction:“Guys with funny hair who promise a great deal have been springing up in our part of the world like mushrooms after rain. And people go running after them, like bears after their keepers. . . . Fear of a changing world, and longing for someone . . . who will promise that life will be the same as it was in the past, are not confined to Regime-Change Land. In half the West, empty promises are made, wrapped in shiny paper like candy. And for this candy, people are happy to get up on their hind legs and dance.”

Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Text Publishing Co

Як нагодувати диктатора / Jak nakarmić dyktatora

Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva

Made in Poland Antologia reporterow Duzego Formatu (Polish Edition)

Monika Piątkowska

Piotr Lipiński

Włodzimierz Nowak

Tomasz Kwaśniewski

Magdalena Grochowska

Leszek K. Talko

Paweł Smoleński

Beata Pawlak

Wojciech Staszewski

Rafał Kalukin

Włodzimierz Kalicki

Irena Morawska

Mariusz Szygieł

Katarzyna Surmiak-Domańska

Agora

Jak nakarmiÄ dyktatora - Witold SzabĹowski [KSIÄĹťKA]

Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

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