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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Paperback – March 19, 1996

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In three newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe (East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland), communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history - and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks: Who is guilty? How shall they be punished? And who is qualified to judge them in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice? Seeking the hard answers to these questions, Tina Rosenberg tells of conscience and complicity, courage and optimism. Winner of the National Book Award for Non-fiction.

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MacArthur fellow Rosenberg's National Book Award-winning look at the uneasy transition from communism in eastern Europe.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (March 19, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679744991
ISBN-13: 978-0679744993
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 29 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #701,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #572 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > International & World Politics > Russian & Former Soviet Union
- #969 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Ideologies & Doctrines > Communism & Socialism
- #1727 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > International & World Politics > European

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A music fan

A book which is at once accessable and powerful

January 2, 2008

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This is a powerful book. What Rosenberg has done is in many ways is to ask powerful questions and put those questions in stories which then strike to the core. Interestingly, Timothy Garton Ash, the great British journalist, has powerful quote as a reviewer where he states the book is powerful than the more dense academic tomes. I could not agree more. What she has done (without the gift of linguistic help as other reviewers fairly make clear) is to expose the grey in trying to determine justice post a very oppresive regime.
Her stories are accessable, powerful and very complex. She is not perfect, and she is in many ways not claiming to be. What she is though is a great journalist who asks great questions and dares to look past the most simple answers.
This book is powerful because you cannot read even one single page without thinking what would I have done in that situation. You are forced to see the world of the former eastern European nations not through rose colored glasses (good students, bad communists), but by looking at the real people and the real decisions that they made.
I love Garton Ash's work, and i have a good deal of his writing on Europe. He however has a tendency towards lionizing the rebels, where as Rosenberg always looks at them for what they are. I think they each see truth and perhaps a different form of that truth.
Her book is again a ringing testimony to the wisdom of our form of government and the blessings of this country. It also does though beg a question of how the war on terror will change our intelligence activities domestically. As with our athletes who seem 20 years behind the East German swimmers in their adoption of performance enhancing drugs, i hope our government has the wisdom to read and understand the lessons of books like these.
A great and profound book in the packaging of a much easier to digest story. This and Stassiland (along with the movie The Lives of Others) makes a great Western view of what was east of the wall.
Happy New Year to all.

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Rescue America

Haunting to read it just now, with similar struggles resonating through Arab countries and the Ukraine

April 5, 2014

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Thought-provoking very personal discussion of how individual citizens in 3 countries, Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, handled the challenges of decades of dictatorial rule in which many ordinary fellow citizens collaborated willingly or unwillingly, knowingly and eagerly or foot dragging or even unknowingly.
How Poles responded to their individual assessment of the threat of a Soviet invasion certainly resonates with events in today's Ukraine. The struggles in all of these countries to emerge from the darkness and control of dictatorship into the unfamiliar blinding light of democracy also resonates with today's struggles in Arab countries.

Also: a positive word for Citybooks@bellsouth.net, which sent a book that was in like new condition for a very good price

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Peter Langer

Both countries denied its citizens good jobs if they opposed Communism

July 22, 2015

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I was born in Soviet-occupied East Germany. My family escaped in11/1952 while Stalin was still in charge. My father was born in Bohemia in 1916, which became the Czech Republic. Both countries denied its citizens good jobs if they opposed Communism. The book covers how both countries handled those responsible for communist abuses after the collapse of communism in 1989. It was similar to how South Africa dealt with the abusers under apartheid by having them confess to their abuses, not by having mass trials. I recently visited both countries in 5/2015 for the first time.

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Fr. Simeon

Surveying the Psychological Wasteland of the Former East Blo

July 14, 2003

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We stand at a point six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and look across a war torn psychological landscape. A haunted land where emotional wreckage lies strewn across the plains like the rubble of bombed out cities after World War II. Tina Rosenberg attempts to take us into this horrifying scene and examine the damage up close. To look at the savaged emotional architecture of the cold war with a critical eye, and to try to formulate if the building is salvageable, if the old bricks can be used to restore the landscape, or if the entire thing needs to be torn down.
I must admit that I was extremely skeptical of this book by the time I had finished reading the introduction. "How," I asked myself, "does an author who, by her own admission, speaks `only rudimentary German and no eastern European language ' expect to get a truly accurate picture of the society? After all, she's at the mercy of the translators or the ability of others to speak English." As I completed my reading of this very well written and thought provoking book I could not, even with serious effort, shake this initial fear about the book's potential shortcomings. It reads less like a history presenting the facts, and more like a long human interest article in the Sunday newspaper, showing only a glimpse of things through interviews with people; some dissidents, some ordinary informers, others former high ranking officials. Few of the interviews struck me as spontaneous, and most of the participants seemed carefully on their guard to say precisely what they wanted to say, revealing nothing that would shake their own self-image.
But, despite the obvious flaws of the book as a historical thesis, it brings us a very interesting portrait of the real pain that some of the ordinary people whose complacency, or participation, allowed the regimes to exist. As a study of how ordinary people are pulled into participation in, or complacency towards, such totalitarian regimes this book is as valuable to us as Albert Speer's memoirs, Inside the Third Reich.

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Matt Mayevsky

Good, synthetic reportage from Eastern Bloc

Good, synthetic reportage from Eastern Bloc; Czechoslovakia, Poland and the GDR. Although it is not a historical textbook, it systematizes knowledge about major events in Central...Read more

Published 2 months ago

Jayfred

Not recommended.

I was quickly bored.

Published 10 months ago

Frederick R. Bauer

Vital modern history

Excellent introduction to a major portion of recent global world history.

Published on August 5, 2015

Rebecca

It is not easy to confront the nuances of power and corruption

I wanted to read to read about the Czech transition to democracy after the Velvet Revolution. I found the book with its glaring truths hard to bear.Read more

Published on October 2, 2014

Susan

A must read for anyone who wants to understand Europe today

This book is absolutely necessary for anyone who wants to understand post-soviet influence in Europe.Read more

Published on June 11, 2014

T Chin

Excellent, detailed read on the years leading to the end of the Cold War in Eastern Central Europe. . .

This is an excellent and detailed political analysis on the years leading up to the end of the Cold War in Central Europe, and should be on a must-read list for anyone studying...Read more

Published on January 21, 2014

Nathan Barnhill

Great book. Not too heavy.

This book is great for getting a grasp on post Soviet Eastern Europe. I have read several novels about the region and this one was by far the easiest read, while also being one of...Read more

Published on May 10, 2013

Leszek Strzelecki

Take on Jaruzelski

I wish I knew about, and read, this book "back then" when it was published in mid 90-ties. But on the other hand, passage of time serves as a valuable tool to verify accuracy and...Read more

Published on February 29, 2012

Amazon Customer

A window to the east

The Author has a distinct style, sort of voyeuristic. What you get here is a lot of conversations from some of the players from Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany before and...Read more

Published on July 12, 2011

Any Mouse

Ok book on great subject

Wonderful topic, but I found Rosenberg's writing oversimplistic. There were too many generalisations for me to really enjoy this book.Read more

Published on July 14, 2010

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