With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigati…
Annotation Examines the secret files of the East German Ministry of State Security, documents that reveal early warnings about the collapse of the Communist regime.
"This book addresses the role of religion in the massive political changes that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989. In particular, it examines the role played by the East German church in that country's bloodless revolution." "Drawing on his own research in East Germany and re…
