Until we fall : long distance life on the left /
"Most westerners glimpsed the breakup of the Soviet Union at a great distance, through a highly distorted lens which equated the expansion of capitalism with the rise of global democracy. But there were those, like Helena Sheehan, who watched more keenly and saw a world turning upside down. In...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2023]
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| Summary: | "Most westerners glimpsed the breakup of the Soviet Union at a great distance, through a highly distorted lens which equated the expansion of capitalism with the rise of global democracy. But there were those, like Helena Sheehan, who watched more keenly and saw a world turning upside down. In her new autobiographical history from below, Until We Fall, Sheehan shares what she witnessed first-hand and close-up, as hopes were raised by glasnost and perestroika, only to be swept away in the bitter and brutal counterrevolutions that followed"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 357 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781685900281 9781685900274 1685900275 1685900283 |