After the Revolutions. What Happened to Eastern Europe

Inessa Pleskachevskaya's book "After the Revolutions. What Happened to Eastern Europe" is a detailed study of the changes that occurred in the former socialist countries: Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany (former GDR), Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia), and in the hearts of the people who experienced the revolutions of 1989. It includes interviews with those who grew up under socialism and personally witnessed the shift in national consciousness and way of life, as well as those who never knew socialism and do not understand how one could be nostalgic for that time.
The author worked on the project from 2014 to 2019 (the 2024 edition has been edited and supplemented by the author). During these five years, Inessa Pleskachevskaya managed to talk to a variety of people: from the last king of Bulgaria, Simeon II, and the last General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Egon Krenz, to the first Prime Minister of independent Slovakia, Vladimir Meciar, as well as one of the richest people in Romania and visionary Florin Talpes, world-famous Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, and Janos Kover, the frontman of the Hungarian band "Omega." She met and spoke with politicians, stars, millionaires, teachers, and pensioners—people of different social statuses—to create the most detailed picture of the changing world of Eastern European residents.