Fatos Lubonja

Broschiertes Buch

The False Apocalypse

From Stalinism to Capitalism

Beschreibung

A fascinating dissection of the political and social events which rapidly bought one of the world's strictest Stalinist regime to rough capitalism and financial collapse.

Autor

Fatos Lubonja is a writer and editor of the quarterly journal Përpjekja, representative of the Forum for Democracy, and a leading figure in Albania's political life. At 23, Lubonja was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for "agitation and propaganda" after police found his diaries, which contained criticisms of Hoxha. He was re- sentenced without trial and spent a total of 17 years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, and was released in 1991. John Hodgson studied English at Cambridge and Newcastle. He has taught at the universities of Prishtina and Tirana and is the translator of Ismail Kadare's Three-Arched Bridge. He has written about Albania, Kosova, the British Balkan traveler Edith Durham, and the novelist John Cowper Powys. He now works as an Albanian-English translator and interpreter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Istros Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781908236197
• ISBN-10: 1908236191
• Artikelnr.: 41657217