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In The Birth of Freedom, Andrew Nagorski provides an unprecedented personal look at the individuals and issues in the newly free nations of Eastern Europe. He takes readers into the hearts of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia as they undergo the painful yet exhilarating transformation into modern democratic states. As Newsweek's Warsaw Bureau Chief, Nagorski has had access not only to the major figures in the lives of these countries - Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall of Hungary - but also to the people who will continue to constitute their conscience and soul: writers, poets, artists, clergymen, environmentalists, and blue-collar workers. He examines how former Communists have fared ...
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In The Birth of Freedom, Andrew Nagorski provides an unprecedented personal look at the individuals and issues in the newly free nations of Eastern Europe. He takes readers into the hearts of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia as they undergo the painful yet exhilarating transformation into modern democratic states. As Newsweek's Warsaw Bureau Chief, Nagorski has had access not only to the major figures in the lives of these countries - Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Prime Minister Jozsef Antall of Hungary - but also to the people who will continue to constitute their conscience and soul: writers, poets, artists, clergymen, environmentalists, and blue-collar workers. He examines how former Communists have fared as businessmen, how former dissidents have coped as politicians, and how everyone has struggled to adjust to new, often unexpected roles amid breathtaking change. The upheavals of 1989 in Eastern Europe may have marked the downfall of communism, but they were only the beginning of an even more exciting drama - the conflicts, soaring hopes, and frequent disillusionment that have accompanied the painstaking process of building new societies. Brimming with real-life anecdotes, The Birth of Freedom chronicles the efforts of the Eastern Europeans to claim their place in the new Europe, overcoming not just the political but also the psychological legacy of four decades of subjugation. In these peoples' sometimes exciting and sometimes daunting quest for their new identities, Nagorski has uncovered a spirit akin to that of early America - an exuberance and a belief in principles as these nations turn their ideas of freedom into reality.

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Nagorski, Newsweek 's Eastern European correspondent, a Polish-American who lives in Warsaw, is an extremely knowledgeable, perceptive, informative guide through post-communist Mitteleuropa. Focusing on Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland--and peripherally on Germany, Slovakia and Ukraine--he tracks the opening chapter and background of a still unfolding story. Nagorski shows us myriad debilitating effects of communist governance on the subjugated, the erosion of their respect for law, the demeaning of their self-esteem, personal integrity and sense of mutual responsibility. As a result, the transition to freedom and a market economy continue to prove troubled, he observes, and inevitably the deprived populace disregard warnings about the spiritual dangers of Western consumerism, even when voiced by the much-respected Pope and by Vaclav Havel. Still, the initial mania is receding, Nagorski finds, and the ``New Europeans'' are becoming less adulatory of all things Western. He updates us on the Catholic Church's waning influence in Poland, the spread of pluralism throughout the region, the crippled situation in the unfunded arts, the revolution in education. As people struggle to purge the old system, a healing is ``perhaps probable,'' Nagorski concludes, although, he also cautions, ``nothing is inevitable or necessarily irreversible.'' (Sept.)
From The Critics
Nagorski, Newsweek 's Eastern Europe correspondent, has written an erudite and fascinating chronicle of the emergence of civil society in Poland, Hungary, and what was once Czechoslovakia. Unlike so many accounts of the radical changes in the former USSR and Eastern Europe that merely recount anecdotes (e.g., Stephen Brook's Claws of the Crab , LJ 8/93; Richard Krooth & Boris Vladimirovitz's Quest for Freedom , LJ 2/1/93; Leland Cooper & Andrea Kenesei's Hungarians in Transition , LJ 6/1/93), Nagorski's work manages to weave the history and literature into a seamless narrative, making for a much richer book. Nagorski argues that the power of ideas was instrumental to the transformation of Eastern European societies, and he ably traces the evolution of opposition from scattered dissidents to a unified grass-roots movement that changed the course of the region's history. Recommended as a very good introduction for general current events collections. -- Joseph Parsons, Columbia Coll., Chicago

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  • ISBN-13: 9780671782252
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/1/1993
  • Pages: 336

Meet the Author

Andrew Nagorski is a senior editor at Newsweek International. An award-winning Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow, Berlin and several other postings, he is the author of three previous books, including the novel Last Stop Vienna, a Washington Post bestseller. He lives in Pelham Manor, New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11
1 Resistance, Rebellion, and Life 21
2 The Communist Afterlife 55
3 Outsiders as Insiders 92
4 To Market 145
5 Poisoned Air, Poisoned Bodies 179
6 Life Without Censors 198
7 God and the Devil 231
8 Neighbors 269
Notes 307
Index 311
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