Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe

by Andrew Nagorski

An Eastern European correspondent for Newsweek takes a unique look at individuals in Poland, Hungary, and former Czechoslovakia as they grapple with issues of change as totalitarian rule is pushed aside for freedom and democracy.

Genres: History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

From back cover:
Andrew Nagorski, award-winning journalist, is vice president and director of public policy at the EastWest Institute, a New York-based international affairs think tank. During a long career at Newsweek, he served as the magazine's bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He lives in Pelham Manor, New York.

Reviews

[Joe McMahon]

I learned much when I read this book soon after its 1993 publication, and I was glad recently to find a copy in the Franklin Square (NY) public library. Its focus is then-recent events in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, explaining that this is Central Europe, not Eastern Europe. Chapter Seven, "God and the Devil," interested me the most because it discusses the role of the Catholic church and the church's faithful. Because the author wrote before 1993, he does not treat of more recent and startling controversies. He does not mention Radio Maryja and Tadeusz Rydzyk. However, on page 241 he relates several ways of the domineering clerics, such as shaming those who do not go to confession at Easter.
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I am searching for a 2019 or 2020 book describing life in Poland.