How We Survived Communism And Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić

How We Survived Communism And Even Laughed

Slavenka Drakulić

193 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction essays history memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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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