Summary
"A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was... Full description
- Stalin
- The other Ypi
- 471: a brief biography
- Uncle Enver is dead
- Coca-Cola cans
- Comrade Mamuazel
- They smell of sun cream
- Brigatista
- Ahmet got his degree
- The end of history
- Grey socks
- A letter from Athens
- Everyone wants to leave
- Competitive games
- I always carried a knife
- It's all part of civil society
- The crocodile
- Structural reforms
- Don't cry
- Like the rest of Europe
- Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.