Они отвалились: как и почему закончился социализм в Восточной Европе

How are beer and revolution connected? How to organize lustration? What drugs are there under socialism? 30 years ago, the socialist project in Eastern Europe ended - the democrats came to power in the Warsaw Pact states, and the communists remained in the past. The history of the socialist bloc contained a huge number of plots - contradictory, complex and interesting (propaganda and the shadow economy, dissidents and informers, Wang and Walesa). The authors of this book, journalists Dmitry Okrest and Yegor Sennikov, will talk about how the countries of the former social bloc (from Poland and Hungary to the GDR and Czechoslovakia) lived, why the visionary political project in them ended so quickly, and why today many of them have turned to Euroscepticism. What does today's resident of Russia remember for 30-40 years about the Eastern Bloc? Metal constructors from the GDR? Romanian sneakers? Czechoslovak animated series about the adventures of a mole? Meanwhile, our countries have a lot in common in history, and history not only of the past, but also of the present. The authors of this book, journalist Dmitry Okrest and Yegor Sennikov, give readers a fascinating tour of the events that took place in the countries of the social bloc. • How is beer and revolution connected? • How to organize lustration? • What drugs are there under socialism? The history of Poland, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania contained a huge number of plots - contradictory, complex and interesting. Here is propaganda and the shadow economy, dissidents and informers, Vanga and Walesa. This is the second book that has grown from a popular public on VKontakte - vk.com/ussrchaosss (150,000 subscribers). The first book, She Fell Down, deals with everyday Russian and Soviet history from 1985 to 1999, after the collapse of the USSR.