The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

"The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms. Brilliant and impassioned." --LA Times Book Review

In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism's former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history--and sometimes rewrite it. In this groundbreaking, stylishly reported book, a journalist travels across the battlefields of memory and asks: Who is guilty? How should they be punished? And who is qualified to judge them in states where almost every citizen was an accomplice?

In East Germany, Tina Rosenberg follows the trial of the border guards charged with the last shooting at the Berlin Wall. In the Czech Republic, she meets a heroic dissident who has now been ostracized for having once cooperated with the old regime. In Poland, she speaks with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the one-time architect of martial law who now presents himself as his country's savior. Out of these stories of conscience and complicity, courage and optimism, The Haunted Land delivers the final chapter of the greatest moral drama of our time.

Author: Tina Rosenberg
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/19/1996
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679744993
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 27
New York Times 04/28/1996 pg. 36
New York Times 06/16/1996 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 04/29/1996

About the Author
Tina Rosenberg is a journalist who lived and traveled extensively in Latin America from 1985 to 1991. She was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 1987, and her work has appeared in magazines such as Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic. She now lives in Washington, DC.