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" Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer / "
Zlatko Anguelov.
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BL
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1005210
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b759580
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Anguelov, Zlatko,1946-
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Communism and the remorse of an innocent victimizer /\ Zlatko Anguelov.
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1st ed.
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College Station, Tex. :: Texas A & M University Press,, ©2002.
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Eastern European studies ;; no. 16
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1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages) :: illustrations, map.
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1585449741
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1585441953
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9781585441952
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: collapse and reanimation -- Buying illusions -- Bad luck or bad choice? -- Victims and victimizers -- Eye-opening experiences inside the prison -- Selling freedom -- Euphoria -- Deflation -- Nostalgia -- Epilogue: To whom we belong.
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"For decades Americans imagined life under Communist regimes to be grim, frightening, and oppressive. Not so, Bulgarian-born Zlatko Anguelov reveals in this memoir. For the most part, life was just normal. People adjust; bread must be earned; families enjoy each other's company. If Communist governments were oppressive, that oppression became the norm for most people's lives; totalitarianism was mundane and even banal." "Yet in the morally ambivalent world of the communism in which Anguelov grew up, everyone was both victim and victimizer. Few dissented; few intended evil. More typical were tales of compliance, complicity, and informing on friends and neighbors just as part of getting by. Whether discussing his schooldays, his marriages, or his career, Anguelov inexorably returns to his theme of compliance. In moving but understated prose, he describes his own coming to terms with the harm done by compliance and his gradual shift into a more politically active stance."--Jacket.
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Anguelov, Zlatko,1946-
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Anguelov, Zlatko,1946-
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Communism and culture-- Bulgaria.
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Communism and society.
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Balkan Peninsula.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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Communism and culture.
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Communism and society.
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History Archaeology.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Manners and customs.
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Politics and government
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Regions Countries - Europe.
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Communisme.
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Dagelijks leven.
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Bulgaria, Politics and government, 1944-1990, Philosophy.
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Bulgaria, Social life and customs, 20th century.
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Bulgaria.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.903/1/092B
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DR93.A54A3 2002eb
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15.70bcl
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