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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-     Subjects     Anti-fascist movements -- Bulgaria -- History.     Post-communism -- Bulgaria.     Communism -- Bulgaria -- History.     Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History.     Guerrillas -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Bulgaria.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-       by title:      The Left side of his...       by call number:      940.53499 G427L     Search the Web     Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-     Anti-fascist movements -- Bulgaria -- History.     Post-communism -- Bulgaria.     Communism -- Bulgaria -- History.     Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History.     Guerrillas -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Bulgaria.       MARC Display

The Left side of history : World War II and the unfulfilled promise of communism in Eastern Europe / Kristen Ghodsee. by Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- Duke University Press, 2015. Call #: 940.53499 G427L Subjects Anti-fascist movements -- Bulgaria -- History.   Post-communism -- Bulgaria.   Communism -- Bulgaria -- History.   Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History.   Guerrillas -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Bulgaria. ISBN:  9780822358350 (pbk.) 0822358352 (pbk.) 9780822358237 (hc.) 0822358239 (hc.) Description:  xx, 231 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  The mysterious major Frank Thompson -- A a communist by any other name . . . -- "I simply want to fight" -- The brothers Lagadinov -- A failed petition -- Lawrence of Bulgaria? -- Ambushed in Batuliya -- Guerillas in the mist -- Everyday life as a partisan -- Blood of a poet -- The head hunted -- Words of one brother on the death of another -- The retired partisan -- A woman's work is never done -- History is written by the victors -- On censorship and the secret police -- The politics of truth -- Cassandra's curse -- The red samaritan -- The past is a foreign country -- A moment of redemption. Summary:  "Partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. They were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight for a cause they believed to be right. Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today in democratic Eastern Europe there is ever-increasing despair, disenchantment with the post-communist present, and growing nostalgia for the communist past. These phenomena are difficult to understand in the West, where "communism" is a dirty word that is quickly equated with Stalin and Soviet labor camps. Ghodsee provides a nuanced understanding of how communist ideals could inspire ordinary people to make extraordinary sacrifices. Kristen Ghodsee is the author of "Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.53499 G427L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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