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.
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.
Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of several books, including The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe and Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism, both also published by Duke University Press, and From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read.
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
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
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