Post-communist Nostalgia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Todorova, Maria; Gille, Zsuzsa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Although 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. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845458348
• Artikelnr.: 54462621

Autorenporträt

Maria Todorova is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her publications include Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2006), Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (2004), Imagining the Balkans (1997), Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction: From Utopia to Propaganda and Back
Maria Todorova
Part I: Rupture and the Economies of Nostalgia
Chapter 1. From Algos to Autonomos: Nostalgic Eastern Europe as
Postimperial Mania
Dominic Boyer
Chapter 2. Strange Bedfellows: Socialist Nostalgia and Neo-Liberalism in
Bulgaria
Gerald W. Creed
Chapter 3. Today's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in
the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement
Cristofer Scarboro
Chapter 4. Nostalgia for the JNA? Remembering the Army in the Former
Yugoslavia
Tanja Petrovic
Chapter 5. Dignity in Transition: History, Teachers and the Nation-State in
post-1989 Bulgaria
Tim Pilbrow
Chapter 6. Invisible-Inaudible: Albanian Memories of Socialism after the
War in Kosovo
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
Chapter 7. "Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so": Nostalgic Directions in
Post-communist Romania
Oana Popescu-Sandu
Part II: Nostalgic Realms in Word, Sound and Screen
Chapter 8. Sonic Nostalgia: Music, Memory, and Mythography in Bulgaria,
1990-2005
Donna Buchanan
Chapter 9. "Ceausescu Hasn't Died": Irony as Counter-Memory in
Post-Socialist Romania
Diana Georgescu
Chapter 10.  Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of
Socialism
Daphne Berdahl
Chapter 11.  "But it's ours": Nostalgia and the politics of authenticity in
postsocialist Hungary
Maya Nadkarni
Chapter 12. Looking Back to the Bright Future: Aleksander Melikhov's Red
Zion
Harriet Murav
Chapter 13. Dwelling on the Ruins of Socialist Yugoslavia: Being Bosnian by
Remembering Tito
Fedja Buric
Chapter 14. The Velvet Prison in Hindsight: Artistic Discourse in Hungary
in the 1990s
Anna Szemere
Chapter 15. Vacant History, Empty Screens: Postcommunist German Films of
the 1990s
Anke Pinkert
Postscript
Zsuzsa Gille