Dancing bears : true stories of people nostalgic for life under tyranny / Witold Szabłowski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szabłowski, Witold, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, translator.

Standardized Title:

Tańczące niedźwiedzie. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Bears.

Post-communism--Psychological aspects.

Post-communism.

Civilization.

Bulgaria--Civilization--21st century.

Bulgaria.

Europe, Eastern--Civilization--21st century.

Europe, Eastern.

Cuba--Civilization--21st century.

Cuba.

Bears--Bulgaria.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

xvii, 233 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Other Title:

True stories of people nostalgic for life under tyranny

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]

Summary:

An account of people in formerly Communist countries holding fast to their former lives.

Contents:

Part 1. Love. Freedom ; Negotiations ; History ; Instincts ; Hibernation ; Lions to Africa ; Castration ; Dancing bears ; The end

Part 2. Love - Cuba: the McRevolution is coming ; Freedom - Poland / United Kingdom: Lady Peron ; Negotiations - Ukraine: nothing bleeps for the smugglers ; History - Albania: the end of the concrete toadstools ; Instincts

Estonia: tea with the invader ; Hibernation - Poland: hobbits at the state farm ; Lions to Africa - Serbia: pop art Radovan. Serbia: chickens for the Serbs ; Castration - Georgia: Stalin's vestal virgins ; Dancing bears - Greece: we'll sweep capitalism away.

Notes:

"Originally published: Tańczące niedźwiedzie. Warszawa : Agora S.A. 2014."

Other Format:

Online version: Szabłowski, Witold, 1980- Dancing bears.

ISBN:

9780143129745

0143129740

OCLC:

990286751