Post-communist nostalgia
By: edited by Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781845456719
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from utopia to propaganda and back / Maria Todorova; title: From algos to autonomos : nostalgic Eastern Europe as postimperial mania / Dominic Boyer; title: Strange bedfellows : socialist nostalgia and neoliberalism in Bulgaria / Gerald W. Creed; title: Today's unseen enthusiasm : communist nostalgia for communism in the socialist humanist brigadier movement / Cristofer Scarboro; title: Nostalgia for the JNA? : remembering the army in the former Yugoslavia / Tanja Petrović; title: Dignity in transition : history, teachers, and the nation-state in post-1989 Bulgaria / Tim Pilbrow; title: Invisible, inaudible : Albanian memories of socialism after the war in Kosovo / Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers; title: "Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so" : nostalgic directions in post-communist Romania / Oana Popescu-Sandu; title: Sonic nostalgia : music, memory, and mythology in Bulgaria, 1990- 2005 / Donna Buchanan; title: "Ceauşescu hasn't died" : irony as countermemory in post-socialist Romania / Diana Georgescu; title: Good bye Lenin! Aufwiedersehen GDR : on the social life of socialism / Daphne Berdahl; title: "But it's ours" : nostalgia and the politics of authenticity in post-socialist Hungary / Maya Nadkarni; title: Looking back to the bright future : Aleksander Melikhov's red Zion / Harriet Murav; title: Dwelling on the ruins of socialist Yugoslavia : being Bosnian by remembering Tito / Fedja Burić; title: The velvet prison in hindsight : artistic discourse in Hungary in the 1990s / Anna Szemere; title: Vacant history, empty screens : post-communist German films of the 1990s / Anke Pinkert.