Lighting the Night: Revolution in Eastern Europe

by WilliamEchikson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.39

  For five years, journalist William Echikson has reported from Eastern Europe, travelling from Poland in the north to Yugoslavia in the south, documenting the daily struggle against the Communist system. Here he profiles the people he knows who brought about the collapse, from Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa to Miklos Haraszti and George Konrad. He also tells of the ordinary people, who stared down tanks in Budapest and danced on the Berlin Wall. He examines the deeper reasons behind the changes, and the struggles that still lie ahead.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $12.34

  This is an account of the events in Eastern Europe which led to revolution or to revolutionary action. Events such as the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the tanks in Bucharest's Palace Square and the candles being lit in front of Budapest's Parliament are all described by the author. Lighting the Night is written by a journalist who has been reporting on the events of Eastern Europe since 1985, from the leaders who foresaw what could be achieved and from the ordinary people who experienced the events. The author writes from an anti-communist view-point.