Coming of age at the end of history w/ Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi joins PTO to talk about her new book Free: Coming of Age at
the End of History. It tells Lea's story of growing up in Stalinist
Albania, the end of communist party rule in 1990, and the country's
slide into violent chaos in 1997. We talked about Albania's
isolation during the cold war after schisms with first the Soviet
Union, and then with China, and how the regime made sense of
Albania's place in the world. We also discussed Lea's childhood and
her reaction to learning that her parents were not the communist
true believers she'd thought them to be. Finally, we talked about
Lea's views on what liberalisation meant for Albania and why her
experience of the post-communist transition left her profoundly
sceptical about liberal notions of what constitutes a truly free
society.