Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History

by Derek Sayer

Book Overview

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

Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural history of Prague from 1938, when the Nazis destroyed Czechoslovakia's artistically vibrant liberal democracy, to 1989, when the country's socialist regime collapsed after more than four decades of communist party rule. Derek Sayer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069118545X
• ISBN13: 9780691185453
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"