The Wall in My Head

November 9, 2009anthology | pb | 241 pgs5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-934824-23-8 "A year or so after the Wall came down, I paid a brief visit to Moscow. The first thing I noticed was that the taxi cab drivers in Moscow, always masters of small talk, were repeating themselves." —Dubravka Ugresic, from "The Souvenirs Of Communism" On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, reuniting the two sides of the divided city, and bringing together a divided Europe and two worlds that had been apart for nearly thirty years. However, the fall of the Berlin Wall was just one of many signs of change that came with 1989; before long a spate of revolutions, the "Autumn of Nations," had spread across Europe and by December, it appeared that the Cold War was over.  To mark the twentieth anniversary of this momentous collapse, and to shed some light on how it came to pass, Words without