Postcards from Absurdistan - Prague at the End of History

Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History



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English | November 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 069118545X | 753 pages | True PDF | 40.22 MB

A sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and cracy—with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship

Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural and political history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal cracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist dictatorship. Derek Sayer shows that Prague's twentieth century, far from being a story of inexorable progress toward some "end of history," whether fascist, communist, or cratic, was a tragicomedy of recurring nightmares played out in a land Czech dissidents dubbed Absurdistan. Situated in the eye of the storms that shaped the modern world, Prague holds up an unsettling mirror to the absurdities and dangers of our own times.