The East was red

Contents: 1967 - 1987 (excerpts) A better world must be possible Departure for the Balkans - Unfaithful to God and in love - Just get out, into the far wild foreign The communard becomes a student leader Communes, bunkers and occupied houses - Student politics as a profession - Paradise lost - Everyone was for the revolution To the sidelines Architectural studies and agitation for the Swiss army - Albania: The little paradise splits off from the big one - A new promised land: Romania Already occupied October group instead of party - Arrested in Hungary - Czechoslovakia at the time of dissidence Madness under Stalin The 70% Stalin and the GuLager 1926 - 1953 - Schooling the works of the party school - A new crisis of faith: Solchenyzin's GuLag Works Friendship with China Deng's purges, Mao's communes - Court summons for trip to China Resignation = expulsion Consultation with old communists - Waiting for rehabilitation Contents 1988 - 2008 (excerpts)The last journey before the wars Yugoslavia 1990 - Slovenia, a contested Alpine refuge - difficult hospitality Between and after four wars Serbia 2004, Bosnia 2007 On the sidelines Playing with democracy: Romania 2007 - Privatised gains, collectivised losses Nationalism replaces international solidarity Precinct 1993, Gdansk 2007 - Silesia during the 1993 robberies - De-solidarisation The old Cold War gives way to the new 20 new nation states and almost as many new despots - Quietly dümpelt the nuclear arsenal Madness from Stalin to Putin 6000 kilometres Reflection trip through the hydro GuLager 1997, 2004 - Gorki, GuLag, poison Friendship with China's opposition Ice wind Datong - Tiänanmen 1988, 1989 - Annulment after the Tiänanmen blood bad Psychologically war-wounded Through Cambodia 2003 - Slums and temples The last front Socialism was always despotic - Capitalism is not always despotic - On the difficult handling of the past.