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Aftershock

A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams

John Feffer

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe to find a region embittered by broken promises and riven by right-wing nationalism.

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A quarter of a century after the fall of communism, novelist and journalist John Feffer returned to Eastern Europe to track down the hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell. Aftershock is the sensational account of that journey. Revealing the broken dreams of a remarkable cast of characters, this is the epic story of a region that against great odds is still fighting for a brighter future.

Author Bio

John Feffer is a freelance journalist and director of the Foreign Policy In Focus programme at the Institute for Policy Studies. His journalism has spanned Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. His previous books include the novel Splinterlands (2016) as well as Shock Waves: Eastern Europe After the Revolutions (1992) and Crusade 2.0: The West’s Resurgent War on Islam (2012).

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Exile Off Main Street
  • Part I: Stepping Backward
    • 1. Pyramids of Sacrifice
    • 2. The Journey to Utopia
    • 3. The Revenge of the Provinces
    • 4. The Faces of Illiberalism 
    • 5. Unexploded Ordnance
  • Interlude: Stepping Backward, Leaping Forward
  • Part II: Leaping Forward
    • 6. Reinvention of Self
    • 7. The Talented Tenth
    • 8. The New Dissidents
    • 9. The Next Generation
    • 10. Creating New Worlds
  • Conclusion: The Future of Illiberalism

Reviews

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London.'
Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums

‘John Feffer brings to this story a traveller’s eye, a rich store of experiences, and a wise perspective. His thoughtful book is a reminder that few nations, anywhere, easily throw off the heritage of tyranny.’
Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in our Hearts and King Leopold’s Ghost

‘Both a merciless political history and a compassionate political psychology of central and eastern Europe’s post-Cold War transformation.’
Miklos Haraszti, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Belarus

‘Feffer’s vivid, finely crafted chronicle, stocked with real-life characters, explains what went awry in Eastern Europe after communism’
Paul Hockenos, author of Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin

‘An essential account of our post-liberal times.’
Padraic Kenney, author of A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989

‘A brisk, vivid and wide-ranging survey of a region in the grip of neoliberalism. As Feffer makes clear, this is hardly just a book about Eastern Europe, as the challenges there now seem to be spreading throughout the world. Feffer’s sense of the future evinces both pessimism of the mind and optimism of the will.’
Lawrence Weschler, author of Vermeer in Bosnia and Calamities of Exile

‘A breath-taking whirlwind tour through the transformations of eastern Europe over the past 30 years. With its account of the travails of contemporary capitalism, it is also astonishingly relevant for understanding pressing political problems in the United States as well.’
David Ost, author of The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Post-Communist Europe

'A searching, analytical work that tries to make sense of where the former East bloc countries are today and why they arrived there. The lucid, gripping narrative is a joy to read and packed with ideas.'
International Politics and Society

Details

Publication Date: 15 November 2017
608 pages

Product ISBNs: Paperback: 9781783609482
eBook ePub: 9781783609512
eBook Kindle: 9781783609529
Library Edition: 9781783609499

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