The picnic : a dream of freedom and the collapse of the Iron Curtain / Matthew Longo.
"In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at a...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Freedom's promise
- Part I: Just kids
- Part II: Europe's prison
- Part III: Breach!
- Part IV: The road to Berlin
- Part V: Democracy now
- Epilogue: Freedom's price.