The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe

by Kristen R. Ghodsee

Book Overview

In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358352
• ISBN13: 9780822358350
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.8"