{"product_id":"postcommunist-nostalgia-9780857456434","title":"PostCommunist Nostalgia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…the term ‘post-communist nostalgia’ will continue to be used, abused, and debated. However, this illuminating book shows that the term evokes multiple phenomena that have arisen, and will continue to arise.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Pol-Int\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book serves an invaluable function by capturing the rich complexity of nostalgia and marking a moment when questions of postmodern historiography can be applied to a past, the recent Communist one, for which the pressures toward absolute evaluations are immense. [It] summarizes some of the scholarship that one might include with the \"contemporary history\" of the region…This volume should have broad general appeal across a market for post-Communist cultural studies and the study of memory.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• H-Habsburg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Overall, this an impressive set of essays that makes a weighty contribution to the study of nostalgia in the European East after socialism. It adds significantly to the burgeoning literature on the infinitely complex and fascinating subject of social remembrance… Scholars and students interested in how memory works (and fails) will find much to appreciate in \u003c\/em\u003ePost-Communist Nostalgia\u003cem\u003e.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Anthropology of East Europe Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The volume is refreshingly iconoclastic… its overall character is kaleidoscopic but all the more fascinating and insightful.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Südosteuropa\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This volume nicely illustrates that nostalgia talk is symptomatic of ongoing struggles over the ‘truths’ of postsocialist history… [It]makes an important ethnographic and theoretical contribution to memory, history, and identity studies in the region and beyond. By exploring the complex and often unpredictable social life of socialism in the realm of memory (Berdahl), it illustrates that sometimes, as Todorova claims, it can be very hard to predict what our pasts are going to be.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Slavic Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“These lively essays make for the rare collection that is greater than the sum of its parts. Bookended by a substantive Foreword and Afterword, they upend the standard ‘diagnosis of nostalgia’ found across the former Soviet bloc, refuting the popular conception that Eastern Europeans are somehow haunted by the past, and illustrating the repertoire of contemporary post-socialist cultural politics at its most sophisticated.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Bruce Grant\u003c\/strong\u003e, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Utopia to Propaganda and Back\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Todorova\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePart I: Rupture and the Economies of Nostalgia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Algos to Autonomos: Nostalgic Eastern Europe as Postimperial Mania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDominic Boyer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eStrange Bedfellows: Socialist Nostalgia and Neo-Liberalism in Bulgaria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGerald W. Creed \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eToday's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCristofer Scarboro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nostalgia for the JNA? Remembering the Army in the Former Yugoslavia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTanja Petrović\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eDignity in Transition: History, Teachers and the Nation-State in post-1989 Bulgaria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTim Pilbrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Invisible-Inaudible: Albanian Memories of Socialism after the War in Kosovo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephanie Schwandner-Sievers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so”: Nostalgic Directions in Post-communist Romania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eOana Popescu-Sandu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePart II: Nostalgic Realms in Word, Sound and Screen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sonic Nostalgia: Music, Memory, and Mythography in Bulgaria, 1990-2005\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDonna Buchanan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003e\"Ceausescu Hasn’t Died\": Irony as Counter-Memory in Post-Socialist Romania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDiana Georgescu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003e Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaphne Berdahl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003e “But it’s ours”: Nostalgia and the politics of authenticity in postsocialist Hungary\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaya Nadkarni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eLooking Back to the Bright Future: Aleksander Melikhov's Red Zion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarriet Murav\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eDwelling on the Ruins of Socialist Yugoslavia: Being Bosnian by Remembering Tito\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFedja Buric\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Velvet Prison in Hindsight: Artistic Discourse in Hungary in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnna Szemere\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Vacant History, Empty Screens: Postcommunist German Films of the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e \tAnke Pinkert\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePostscript\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tZsuzsa Gille\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038913593687,"sku":"9780857456434","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857456434.jpg?v=1750941915","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcommunist-nostalgia-9780857456434","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}