Tác giả: Yuliya Komska

Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to …

This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silen …

The Iron Curtain did not exist-at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct la …

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects’ own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events. The communist secret police s …