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A review by amygko
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulić
3.0
After the trip to Croatia in July, I wanted to know how the life was for Croatians during the Communism period(I was trying to find books about overall Croatian history but hard to find them in the US).Now Croatia looks lovely and peaceful but it certainly still has some scars underneath the beautiful exterior. Also, I have visited several pre-communist countries such as Hungary, Czech, Slovakia and Poland as well and also curious about the cultural difference between pre and post communism era.That was the main motivation to read this book.
Slavenka, the author of this book ,who is a Croatian female journalist, delivered several interesting and eye opening stories about lacking in quality of the female lives in countries under Communism( e.g. insufficient toilet papers or women sanitary items). However, I felt her book does not provide complete pictures of the everyday lives of ordinary people as most of the stories were based on her own experience and some stories that she heard from her acquaintances. At the end, the series of anecdotes were kind of repetitive.
Slavenka, the author of this book ,who is a Croatian female journalist, delivered several interesting and eye opening stories about lacking in quality of the female lives in countries under Communism( e.g. insufficient toilet papers or women sanitary items). However, I felt her book does not provide complete pictures of the everyday lives of ordinary people as most of the stories were based on her own experience and some stories that she heard from her acquaintances. At the end, the series of anecdotes were kind of repetitive.