Unlocking the Iron Gate
Siska, Catherine2018
Book
In a small village in Czechoslovakia, Zuzana Tesarova must survive under a communist system that wants to restrict her family's religious freedom and speech. Her husband, Jozef - an outspoken peasant - is imprisoned for a short period of time and loses his job. Their youngest son, Pavol, is born into these circumstances and grows up behind the Iron Curtain. Despite the fact that he must go along with Marxism and Leninism in academia, Pavol becomes a university professor as well las an active dissident in the underground church.
Main title:
Unlocking the Iron Gate / Catherine Siska.
Author:
Siska, Catherine, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Austin Macauley, 2018.
Collation:
299 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781786938800 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92800.788
Language:
English
Index terms:
local author
BRN:
2659561