1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

Learn more about The Filthiest Village in Europe by Andrew Demshuk: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785474/the-filthiest-village-in-europe Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/bRJ3Q18kvaeejoSvmZAf-5boQCE?utm_source=copy_url Andrew Demshuk is Professor of History at American University and the author of Bowling for Communism. We spoke to Andrew about how a community shrouded by industrial fog and unimaginable pollution became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology in East Germany, how campaigns by local citizens exposed serious environmental and economic crises, and how the dreaded Stasi actually played a role in trying to fix what the East German political system could not.