How we survived communism and even laughed
/ Slavenka Drakulić
- First HarperPerennial edition
- xvii, 197 pages
Originally published: W.W. Norton and Company1992.
You can't drink your coffee alone Pizza in Warsaw, torte in Prague Make-up and other crucial questions I think of Ulrike this night in November On doing laundry A doll that grew old Forward to the past A chat with my censor The strange ability of apartments to divide and multiply Our little Stasi The language of soup A communist eye, or what did I see in New York? A letter from the United States - the critical theory approach Some doubts about fur coats That Sunday, like an empty red balloons My first midnight mass On the quality of wall paint in Eastern Europe The day when they say that war will begin How we survived communism
Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.