TY  - GEN
AU  - Kundera, Milan 
AU  - Asher, Linda
AU  - White, Edmund
TI  - Kidnapped West: the tragedy of Central Europe
SN  - 9780571378418
U1  -  943 KUN 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Russian Oppression
KW  - Central European Story
KW  - Political Independence
KW  - Political Relations
KW  - Communism
N2  - The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.

In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe, Milan Kundera makes the case for Central Europe as the nucleus of European values and as a lightning rod for its potential dangers.

For the countries that make up this region where democracy is under continued threat from Russian oppression, language and culture play an active role in affirming national identity. And each of these countries – Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – has been historically overlooked by the major powers of Western Europe. But Kundera cautions that this blindness puts Europe’s cultural and political independence at risk, a warning that feels increasingly relevant to our current moment, and our future.

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ER  -