Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life under Tyranny

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 Kapus'cin'ski, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szab¿owski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern ...