25 November 1989: people walk from Prague cathedral to Letná Plain. Photo CC BY-SA 3.0: Wikipedia. Some rights reserved.
A review of John Feffer’s Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams.
On the eve of the 30th anniversary of 1989, one could be forgiven succumbing to pessimism following the news coming out of Eastern Europe. Apart from the alarmism about a resurgent and aggressive Russia, it is the “rise of illiberalism”, for instance, in Hungary and Poland, or instability in the Balkans that has captured the imagination of media commentators and political scientists.
