ABOUT THE VICTOR OF THE COLD WAR AND THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
Published on 12. January 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-83952-366-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Untold Story of the Cold War
Raya is a naive but spirited girl growing up in Warsaw Pact Eastern Europe. As a young adult in the nineties, she buys a one-way ticket to the United States, eager to pursue opportunities away from Eastern Europe's disintegrating society. What Raya discovers, however, is that the black and white polarity in Cold War Europe was just an illusion, and that one hemisphere is by no means better than the one she left behind.
Inspired by true events, About the Victor of the Cold War and the Emperor's New Clothes is a fresh and bold exposition of one of the most defining periods of the twentieth century with a unique perspective on capitalism as the perfect economic solution to modern civilization's prosperity. The book is also one girl's quest for the truth amidst the noise of mass media and political doctrines, as she experiences life on both sides of the Iron Curtain, from one extreme ideology to another, in search for the answer to a utopian society.
Raya is a naive but spirited girl growing up in Warsaw Pact Eastern Europe. As a young adult in the nineties, she buys a one-way ticket to the United States, eager to pursue opportunities away from Eastern Europe's disintegrating society. What Raya discovers, however, is that the black and white polarity in Cold War Europe was just an illusion, and that one hemisphere is by no means better than the one she left behind.
Inspired by true events, About the Victor of the Cold War and the Emperor's New Clothes is a fresh and bold exposition of one of the most defining periods of the twentieth century with a unique perspective on capitalism as the perfect economic solution to modern civilization's prosperity. The book is also one girl's quest for the truth amidst the noise of mass media and political doctrines, as she experiences life on both sides of the Iron Curtain, from one extreme ideology to another, in search for the answer to a utopian society.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83952-366-3 (9781839523663)
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Person
Avrora was born in Eastern Europe and was in her teens at the time when the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union disintegrated, and has retained vivid memories of life there in the nineties and late eighties. She then went on to pursue a BA on scholarship in the USA and an MSc in the UK, before entering the world of investment banking in the early years of the first decade of the twenty-first century and experienced it during its apogee of opulence, proliferation and subsequent years of deterioration. She is a qualified management accountant and speaks several languages, albeit at various levels of fluency and, for the love of mind-broadening and exploration of different perspectives, has travelled to more than 65 countries.