After the Revolutions. What Happened to Eastern Europe

The book by Inessa Плескачевская "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 (the former GDR), Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (the 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 turning point in the consciousness of the nation and lifestyle, and with those who never knew socialism and do not understand how one can nostalgically refer to that time.
The author worked on the project from 2014 to 2019 (the 2024 edition is edited and supplemented by the author). During these five years, Inessa Плескачевская managed to talk with various people: from the last king of Bulgaria, Simeon II, the last general secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Egon Krenz, and the first Prime Minister of independent Slovakia, Vladimír Mečiar, to one of the richest people in Romania and visionary Florin Talpeș, world-renowned Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi, and János Kóbor, the frontman of the Hungarian band "Omega". She met and talked 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.