The Picnic: A Rush for Freedom and the Collapse of Communism by Matthew Longo

The Picnic: A Rush for Freedom and the Collapse of Communism

Matthew Longo

320 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative medium-paced
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In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the ...

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