Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One : Thoma Çaraoshi Joins the Party and Sells the Sheep -- Chapter Two : Life is War -- Chapter Three : Stories to Make You Laugh and Cry -- Mevlude Dema -- Chapter Four : Just One Moment Can Break a Soul -- Diana Keçi -- Chapter Five : Invisible Barriers -- Liljana Majko -- Chapter Six : Every Historian Has Their Past -- Professor Riza Hasa -- Chapter Seven : Day Trip to Dragot -- Chapter Eight : Children of the Lost Generations -- Jeras Naço -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References and Further Reading -- Index
Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania is a collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944-1992) in which everything was controlled by the Communist Party; what work one could do, what food was available, and even who one could marry.
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