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Publisher Note

An artists’ book dedicated to the reality of the political condition after the Cold War in former socialist states in Eastern Europe, especially in Romania. Niwa explores the reality of the Marxism-Leninism movement and the situation of the Romanian Communist Party and left parties after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
In this publication, he updates the reality of this movement by looking back on the changes of the political condition in the past eight years. The book contains an interview with Constantin Rotaru, the president of the Romanian Socialist Party, and Petre Ignatencu, the president of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as an essay by Eugen Rădescu, a political scientist.

Artists’ Book

Welcome Disappointed Picnic Government

by Yoshinori Niwa

Publisher self-published
Release Date 2018
Credits
Artist: Yoshinori Niwa
Printrun 150
Pages 136