Dancing Bears Lib/E: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny (Compact Disc)

Dancing Bears Lib/E: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny By Witold Szablowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator), Stefan Rudnicki (Read by) Cover Image
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For hundreds of years, Bulgarian Gypsies trained bears to dance, welcoming them into their families and taking them on the road to perform. In the early 2000s, with the fall of Communism, they were forced to release the bears into a wildlife refuge. But even today, whenever the bears see a human, they still get up on their hind legs to dance.

In the tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski, award-winning Polish journalist, Witold Szablowski uncovers remarkable stories of people throughout Eastern Europe and in Cuba who, like Bulgaria's dancing bears, are now free but who seem nostalgic for the time when they were not. His on-the-ground accounts provide a fascinating portrait of social and economic upheaval and a lesson in the challenges of freedom and the seductions of authoritarian rule.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781538521625
ISBN-10: 1538521628
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date: March 6th, 2018
Language: English