What is the author's tone in How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic?

The tone of the book is somber, largely hopeless, but with a small bit of hope. Slavenka regards communism as a disaster for the human race. It has destroyed the soul of the Eastern European people, leading them into a life of despair and hopelessness. Further, communist governments inevitably produced a communist mindset—people who were hostile to any kind of social inequality and that would go to great lengths to suppress individuality as a result; it caused people to stockpile goods because they were constantly afraid of collapse.