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THE PICNIC
A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnicit was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents.
The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Unionthe so-called end of historyall would flow from those dramatic hours. Drawing on exclusive interviews, Matthew Longo gives an invaluable account of historical change, and the disillusionment that followed, as emotionally powerful as it is revealing.
Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University (Netherlands) and the author of THE POLITICS OF BORDERS: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge, 2018), winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award from the American Political Science Association. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and was awarded the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Philosophy. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Democratization, The Nation, the Boston Review, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times; his research has been featured in the Washington Post and on National Public Radio
The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Soviet Unionthe so-called end of historyall would flow from those dramatic hours. Drawing on exclusive interviews, Matthew Longo gives an invaluable account of historical change, and the disillusionment that followed, as emotionally powerful as it is revealing.
Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University (Netherlands) and the author of THE POLITICS OF BORDERS: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge, 2018), winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award from the American Political Science Association. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University in 2014 and was awarded the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Political Philosophy. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Democratization, The Nation, the Boston Review, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times; his research has been featured in the Washington Post and on National Public Radio
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