Kristen Ghodsee

Red Hangover

Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism

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Produktbeschreibung

Kristen 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369349
• ISBN-10: 0822369346
• Artikelnr.: 47122579

Autorenporträt

Kristen Ghodsee

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Freundschaft  xi
Part I. Postsocialist Freedoms
1. Fires  3
2. Cucumbers  1
3. Pieces (Fiction)  24
4. Belgrade, 2015 (Fiction)  39
Part II. Re ing the Divided
5. #Mauerfall25  47
6. The Enemy of My Enemy  68
7. A Tale of Two Typewriters  84
Part III. Blackwashing History
8. Gross Domestic Orgasms  101
9. My Mother and a Clock  111
10. Venerating Nazis of Vilify Commies  129
Part IV. "Democracy Is the Worst Form of Government, Except All Those Other
Forms that Have Been Tried from Time to Time"
11. Three Bulgarian Jokes  149
12. Post-Zvyarism: A Fable about Animals on a Farm (Fiction)  150
13. Interview witha Former Member of the Democractic Party of the United
States (Fiction)  167
14. Democracy for the Penguins  179
Acknowledgments  201
Notes  205
Selected Bibliography  223