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Lea Ypi

A childhood in the last Stalinist state, and a philosopher's question about what replaced it.

Lea Ypi grew up in Albania believing she lived in the world’s last true socialist state, and was eleven when it collapsed. Her memoir sets a child’s account against a philosopher’s, and asks what freedom actually meant in either system — the one that promised it, and the one that arrived claiming to deliver it.

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Lea Ypi was 11 when communism fell in Albania. Until this point, she had loved Stalin and Uncle Enver Hoxha – who ruled Albania with an iron fist for over 40 years – with a child’s unquestioning devotion.

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