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Hosted by Dr Mike Phillips OBE, British novelist, historian and curator Monday 8 February 2010 19.00-21.00, The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre, Manchester Square, 18 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 6EQ; Tel. 020 7486 0295, ext 108; e-mail: bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk; Entry is free but booking is essential. Blood drips on Thorpe’s head as he tries to escape the Romanian secret police, with a dissident’s statement hidden in his clothes. Then as the Hungarian government prepares to expel him, he becomes a pawn in the Cold War as the British threaten to retaliate. Through the autumn and winter of 1989, Thorpe hops from revolution to revolution, from Budapest to Prague, Leipzig to East Berlin. And gets to Romania in time for the bloody finale. But with the victory of democracy, his work was only just beginning. Thorpe guides us through the dramas and traumas of the 1990s, the years of ‘jungle capitalism’ through a taxi blockade in Hungary, and the miners’ invasion of Bucharest. He camps with Vaclav Havel – who borrows his sleeping bag. As Yugoslavia collapses, he reports from Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Macedonia. The book concludes in 2009, with the impact of the crisis of capitalism, 20 years after the crisis of communism. BOOK PRESENTATION: ‘89: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION Power and Powerlessness in Eastern Europe by Nick Thorpe Paperback, 320 pages, 16 colour plates, Reportage Press (9 November 2009). ISBN-10: 1906702179, ISBN-13: 978-1906702175 ‘89: The Unfinished Revolution’ will be available to buy on the evening at the special price of £10 (normal price £12.99). The author is available to sign copies. Nick Thorpe began reporting from Budapest in February 1986, the first western journalist to be based there. For the BBC, the Independent, and the Observer, he covered the dying years of eastern Europe’s regimes, then the revolutions which toppled them. He witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, the transformation of nonviolent to violent resistance in Kosovo. As the BBC’s Central Europe correspondent he continues to report the successes, and the failures of a revolution which never quite reaches its goal. Organised by The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre in London. With the support of Reportage Press and ProFusion International Creative Consultancy. Image courtesy of Reportage Press. |
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