Exit into history : a journey through the new Eastern Europe

In 1989, when Eastern Europe was experiencing a wave of revolutions, Eva Hoffman captured life in Eastern Europe to document the enormous social transformation of post-communism across the region. After the events of 1989 she spent several months in her native Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. She visited capital cities, wayside villages and provincial towns; stopped at shipyards, museums, and the coffee-houses of the intelligentsia; and talked to a great variety of people about the tumult they had lived through.