Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. INTRODUCTION Street Theater, Concrete Poetry 1
4. PART ONE: ACTORS, STAGES, REPERTOIRES
5. CHAPTER ONE Eating the Crocodile with a Spoon, or, A Career Guide to the Underground 23
6. CHAPTER TWO Come With Us! They Aren't Beating Today! The Art of the Blizzard 57
7. CHAPTER THREE As If in Europe: The International World of Peace and Human Rights 91
8. CHAPTER FOUR The New Politics of the Konkretny Generation 121
9. CHAPTER FIVE How the Smurfs Captured Gargamel, or, A Revolution of Style 157
10. PHOTOESSAY: PHOTOGRAPHING THE CARNIVAL 195
11. PART TWO: A REVOLUTION IN SIXTEEN SCENES
12. SCENE ONE: "I Blink, and I See Another World": The Candlelight March 215
13. SCENE TWO: A Tale of Two Lenins 217
14. SCENE THREE: Slovene Spring 225
15. SCENE FOUR: Days That Shook Lviv 229
16. SCENE FIVE: Strikes in Shades of Orange 233
17. SCENE SIX: An Invasion Remembered 238
18. SCENE SEVEN: WaterDam/ned: Hungary Defends the Danube 241
19. SCENE EIGHT: Independence Day and Palach Week 244
20. SCENE NINE: Encircling the Round Table 249
21. SCENE TEN: Mothers and Children 254
22. SCENE ELEVEN: On the Fourth of June 257
23. SCENE TWELVE: Hungarians Bury the Communists 261
24. SCENE THIRTEEN: Korzos and Road Races 265
25. SCENE FOURTEEN: Lviv Passes the Baton 269
26. SCENE FIFTEEN: The Mosquito and the Messedemos 274
27. SCENE SIXTEEN: Bring a Flower with You! The Velvet Revolution 280
28. EPILOGUE No More Picnics, After the Revolution 293
29. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 307
30. Notes 311
31. Sources 323
32. Index 331