by Timothy Garton Ash · Planeta, Colección Documento nº 302, 1992, Barcelona · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432044892
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«Los frutos de la adversidad» is the historical essay by Timothy Garton Ash, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (481 pages, in Spanish).
A work made up of articles and chronicles that Timothy Garton Ash wrote in the late 1980s, as Central Europe approached the fall of communism. The author portrays the politics, culture and social life of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany, and questions whether they all form a single Central Europe.
Original title: 'The Uses of Adversity'. Translation by Clara Cabarrocas. 1992 edition in the Documento collection, no. 302. The original work received the Prix européen de l’essai Charles Veillon.
A work for readers interested in the history of Central Europe, the politics of Eastern countries and the end of communist regimes.
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989, George Kennan described him as a 'historian of the present'.
