{"product_id":"red-hangover-legacies-of-twentiethcentury-communism-9780822369349","title":"Red Hangover  Legacies of TwentiethCentury","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell, reflecting on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and \u003ci\u003eRed Hangover\u003c\/i\u003e is the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly compelling.\" -- Patrick Iber * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the last. \u003ci\u003eRed Hangover\u003c\/i\u003e is the most complex, melding personal and professional experience with history and political theory....\" -- Deena Stryker * OpEd News *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an extraordinary book . . . Different genres are employed to great effect, offering a multidimensional view of the postcommunist world. . . . A real contribution to the re-narration of European history after 1989.\" -- Wim de Jong * H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kristen Ghodsee wrote\u003ci\u003e Red Hangover \u003c\/i\u003efor the nonexpert, especially for the student born after 1989 who is trying to make sense of the present. The truly broad readership I can envision for this book, however, encompasses not only young people but rather anyone concerned about the fate of democracy.\" -- Adrienne J. Cohen * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRed Hangover \u003c\/i\u003eis a brave book, one that brims with urgency concerning the current state of the world and the possibilities for improving it—possibilities that are enhanced, she believes, by taking the communist experience seriously. In short, she makes the study of eastern Europe, both under socialism and after it, crucial in effort to envisage a more viable future.\" -- Katherine Verdery * Slavic Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: \u003ci\u003eFreundschaft\u003c\/i\u003e  xi\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Postsocialist Freedoms\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fires  3\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cucumbers  1\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pieces (Fiction)  24\u003cbr\u003e 4. Belgrade, 2015 (Fiction)  39\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Re ing the Divided\u003cbr\u003e 5. #Mauerfall25  47\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Enemy of My Enemy  68\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Tale of Two Typewriters  84\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Blackwashing History\u003cbr\u003e 8. Gross Domestic Orgasms  101\u003cbr\u003e 9. My Mother and a Clock  111\u003cbr\u003e 10. Venerating Nazis of Vilify Commies  129\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. \"Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government, Except All Those Other Forms that Have Been Tried from Time to Time\"\u003cbr\u003e 11. Three Bulgarian Jokes  149\u003cbr\u003e 12. Post-Zvyarism: A Fable about Animals on a Farm (Fiction)  150\u003cbr\u003e 13. Interview witha Former Member of the Democractic Party of the United States (Fiction)  167\u003cbr\u003e 14. Democracy for the Penguins  179\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  201\u003cbr\u003e Notes  205\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography  223","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737463861591,"sku":"9780822369349","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369349.jpg?v=1723811224","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-hangover-legacies-of-twentiethcentury-communism-9780822369349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}