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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

by Slavenka Drakulic

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 227 PAGES

These short essays capture the absurdity, struggle and day-to-day reality of being a woman in Yugoslavia under Communism (including vignettes about friends and colleagues in other Eastern European countries). Drakulic is a Croatian journalist, novelist and contributing editor at The Nation.  (BLK38, $15.99)


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