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How Do You Tear Down a Border? - In Conversation with Matthew Longo
Manage episode 399398183 series 3310038
In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Matthew Longo – author of the new book The Picnic. A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain – discusses what motivated him to research the Pan-European Picnic of 1989; why he places such an emphasis on the uncertainty of the situation in those crucial days; and what conclusions he has drawn regarding the meaning of freedom in 1989 – and how that meaning has changed since.
Matthew Longo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.
The Picnic. A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain has been published by W.W. Norton & Company.
In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.
265 episodes
Manage episode 399398183 series 3310038
In this conversation with RevDem editor Ferenc Laczó, Matthew Longo – author of the new book The Picnic. A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain – discusses what motivated him to research the Pan-European Picnic of 1989; why he places such an emphasis on the uncertainty of the situation in those crucial days; and what conclusions he has drawn regarding the meaning of freedom in 1989 – and how that meaning has changed since.
Matthew Longo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.
The Picnic. A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain has been published by W.W. Norton & Company.
In collaboration with Lucie Hunter.
265 episodes
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