Albanian academic and author Lea Ypi’s memoir recalls a childhood under Uncle Enver and how communism’s collapse turned her life and worldview upside down
14 Jul Regions & Cities

Albanian academic and author Lea Ypi’s memoir recalls a childhood under Uncle Enver and how communism’s collapse turned her life and worldview upside down

As a child, Lea Ypi embraced Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha's paranoid Stalinist regime with full enthusiam, unaware of her family's secret political heritage. In her memoir, she recalls an adolescence abruptly interrupted by Hoxhaism's collapse and the ideological and geopolitical turmoil that ensued.
by Luke Johnson
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