Living through the fall of communism

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Professor Lea Ypi reflects on her childhood years, which witnessed the final years of communism in Albania and the fraught transition to capitalist democracy. In conversation with Rob Attar, she also considers what these experiences have taught her about the true nature of freedom. (Ad) Lea Ypi is the author of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Penguin, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-viewingguide&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Ffree%2Flea-ypi%2F9780241481851 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:33.2	Lea Upi spent her childhood in communist Albania, one of the most isolated countries in Europe.
1:39.8	Then in the 1990s, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the communist regime was swept away and Albania embraced capitalism and democracy.
1:43.9	In her new book, Free Coming of Age at the End of History,
1:48.4	Leia, now professor of political theory at the London School of Economics,
1:53.1	revisits those dramatic years,
1:55.3	describing the complexities of life under communist rule
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