The uses of adversity: essays on the fate of Central Europe

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The Uses of Adversity illuminates the historic changes that came about in Central Europe during the 1980s. Travelling behind the Iron Curtain, talking to dissidents and ordinary people, Ash discovered the underground movements that would erupt in 1989.

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