They Escaped: How and Why Socialism Ended in Eastern Europe

The book, which grew out of the well-known public VKontakte, vk.com/ussrchaosss (150,000 subscribers). The authors, journalists Dmitry Okrest and Yegor Sennikov, take readers on a fascinating tour of the events that took place in the Eastern bloc. They describe how the countries of the former communist bloc (from Poland and Hungary to the GDR and Czechoslovakia) lived from 1989 to 1999. The book will be a valuable acquisition for anyone who is keen on history. 18+