Entre Este y Oeste

In the fall of 1991, at the height of the disintegration of the Soviet empire, Anne Applebaum. History of the Soviet concentration camps- she undertook a journey from the Baltic to the Black Sea, passing through Lithuania, Belarus, the Carpathians and the Ukraine, with the intention of understanding the new configuration of territories in constant conflict. Along the way she discovered a wide range of competing identity cultures, religions and nationalist aspirations. Although more than thirty years have passed, the lives narrated here are read today as a documentary record of a world that no longer exists. A keen observer, Applebaum skillfully weaves the harrowing history of a misunderstood region through the accounts of ordinary people, describing how historical events influence and shape people's lives.