Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer
by Zlatko Anguelov
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"For decades Americans imagined life under Communist regimes to be grim, frightening, and oppressive. Not so, Bulgarian-born Zlatko Anguelov reveals in this memoir. For the most part, life was just normal. People adjust; bread must be earned; families enjoy each other's company. If Communist governments were oppressive, that oppression became the norm for most people's lives; totalitarianism was mundane and even banal.".
"Yet in the morally ambivalent world of the communism in which Anguelov grew up, everyone was both victim and victimizer. Few dissented; few intended evil. More typical were tales of compliance, complicity, and informing on friends and neighbors just as part of getting by. Whether discussing his schooldays, his marriages, or his career, Anguelov inexorably returns to his theme of compliance.
In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--BOOK JACKET.
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Communism and culture, Communism and society, Philosophy, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Anguelov, Zlatko, 1946-, Communism and society., Communism and culture -- Bulgaria., Bulgaria -- Politics and government -- 1944-1990 -- Philosophy., Bulgaria -- Social life and customs -- 20th century., Bulgaria, politics and government, Politique et gouvernement, Philosophie, Communisme et société, Communisme et culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Historical, HISTORY, General, Manners and customs, Communisme, Dagelijks leven, Balkan Peninsula, Regions & Countries - Europe, History & ArchaeologyPeople
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Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer
2002, Texas A&M University Press
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1585441953 9781585441952
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