Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
Why did Kovaly initially embrace Communism and then gradually reject the political ideology?
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The author chronicles the divergence of ideological Communism and applied Soviet-style Communism during the early 1950s. Naturally, a fair amount of insightful commentary is included but the fundamental concept is that tyranny, in whatever form, is evil and destructive. The book ends with a prolonged political commentary on the Prague Spring of 1968 and the immediate results of that transient upheaval.