Poetry Matters Too
February 25, 2014
I know I’m mainly focusing on Communism here, but poetry is a lot like Gorbachev, because no one really cares what either one is doing in 2014. So when prompted to analyze a personal narrative, I knew Kelsey Rakes-Jaggers was my girl. I originally wanted to focus on her blog, but quickly realized I could […]
A Haunted Present
February 18, 2014
I want to clarify, before I start, that in no way did I dislike Tina Rosenberg’s The Haunted Land. The book, rather than collecting events that lead to the fall of the wall, attempt to gather a history to be collected on how citizens survived through Communism, and how they plan to tackle the future. Rosenberg […]
A Carnival Against Communism
February 11, 2014
A Carnival of Revolution by Padraic Kenney examines the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe (or Central Europe as Kenney calls it) in 1989. His main argument is that no one series of events brought about the collapse in 1989. Many people, even today, call the year 1989 a “miracle” or a “sudden surprise”. However, […]