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    <body><![CDATA[I purchased this book at the Book Cafe in Makarska, Croatia on the eve of my return to Madrid. I read the whole book on the 5 hour plane ride back home. Drakulic's stories and observations illuminate the multiplicity of ways in which Communism effected and continue to effect women's lives in post-co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67606201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A rambly look at the mundane details of life under communism.  It was interesting to hear about daily hardships that were the accepted facts of life, but I grew a little weary with the author's forays into philosophizing about politics and communism in general.  I know what communism is about; I jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55306753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful, intimate expression of reality from lives of former Soviet women before and after the 'fall' of communism. A mile-marker of feminist writing, this novel opens the personal lives of those who experienced overwhelmingly male dominated communist society where waiting hours in lines every day...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32666348">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book on a visit to Prague a couple years back and grabbed it because I kept wondering what happened to communism, since, on the surface in 2006, it almost seemed like maybe it never existed. Drakulic's account of what her life was like living under communism (and after it fell) as a wom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11171314">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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