How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Slavenka Drakulić with Lesa Lockford (Narrator)

6 hours, 3 minutes first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction essays history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocat...

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Moods

informative 70%
reflective 70%
challenging 41%
emotional 35%
dark 17%
hopeful 17%
inspiring 17%
sad 17%
adventurous 5%
funny 5%
lighthearted 5%
tense 5%

Pace

medium 58%
slow 29%
fast 11%

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4.02

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