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The Picnic
A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
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ISBN-13:
9780393540772
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.11.2023
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Matthew Longo
Gewicht:
556 g
Format:
234x156x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Matthew Longo is assistant professor of political science at Leiden University and award-winning author of The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11. A native New Yorker, he lives in the Netherlands.
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organised a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic-it was located on the dangerous militarised frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumour, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents.