Death of the Dark Hero: Eastern Europe, 1987-90

Death of the Dark Hero: Eastern Europe, 1987-90

by David Selbourne (Author)

Synopsis

David Selbourne returned from Bucharest in January 1990 having witnessed the startling events in the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe. In this book he gives an account of what led up to these political changes, based on discussions with a wide range of men and women, both in power and out. When he began to write his book, he was obliged to disguise the names of his informants to protect them, but in the final chapters their identities are restored as many of them find themselves thrust into the centre stage of political leadership. Selbourne suggests that the transformations which are occurring in Eastern Europe reflect those of the French Revolution, exactly 200 years earlier.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Published: 26 Apr 1990

ISBN 10: 0224027921
ISBN 13: 9780224027922

Author Bio
David Selbourne was born in 1937 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. His books include Against Social Illusion: A Radical Argument, and Left Behind: Journeys Into British Politics. He is also well known for his journalism in the Independent, the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times. He published most recently a selection form his father's diaries in A Doctor's Life - a vivid picture of the start of a period of great social change in England in the 1960s.