Publisher's Synopsis
The challenge taken on in this book is to confront a division that has separated Europe by an Iron Curtain for over 40 years.
The contributions deal with the historical background of this division and its impact on Eastern European biographies.
Empirical and theoretical investigations of transformations in people's lives since 1989 are highlighted relating to Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Yugoslavia, as well as the German Democratic Republic. The historical period covered by the articles in this book extends from the Soviet Revolution of 1917 to the present.
