Ebook: The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; NOSTALGIA FOR THE HABSBURGS; 1 } POLAND; THE LAST OF THE GREAT RESISTANCE INTELLIGENTSIA; 2 } THE CZECH REPUBLIC; 3 } SLOVAKIA; 4 } HUNGARY; OUTCASTS, EMIGRES AND EXILES; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.;One of the country's most distinguished writers and publishers returns to her roots to explore the consequences of democracy in the former Habsburg lands. In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct Hapsburg Empire and the more recently dispersed Soviet Empire have been trying to invent their own versions of democracy and market-driven economics. But these experiments have led to a widening gap between rich and poor. The worldwide economic crisis has severely tested Central Europe's determination to live pea.