Post-Soviet Nostalgia (eBook, PDF)

Confronting the Empire's Legacies
Redaktion: Boele, Otto; Robbe, Ksenia; Noordenbos, Boris

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores post-Soviet nostalgia as a discursive practice serving a variety of agendas. The authors show how post-Soviet feelings of loss and displacement are turned into effective tools of state building, as well as into weapons for resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000497410
• Artikelnr.: 57194504

Autorenporträt

Otto Boele is Associate Professor of Russian literature at Leiden University. Boris Noordenbos is Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Ksenia Robbe is Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Literature at Leiden University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Many Practices of Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Affect,
Appropriation, Contestation Part I: Affect 1. Journeying to the Golden
Spaces of Childhood: Nostalgic Longing in the Online Community The USSR Our
Motherland Through the Visual Image of the Soviet Toy 2. Second-hand
Nostalgia: On Charms and Spells of the Soviet Trukhliashechka 3. Village
Voice: Peasant Nostalgia in Recent Oral History Part II: Appropriation 4.
Longing for Fear and Darkness: "Oppositional Grassroots Stalinism" in the
1970s-80s and Its Influence on Legitimizing Political Elites in Today's
Russia 5. Remembering Chernobyl Through the Lens of Post-Soviet Nostalgia
6. To Be Continued: Post-Soviet Nostalgia in Sergei Miroshnichenko's
Time-Lapse Documentary Series Born in the USSR Part III: Contestation 7.
Under the Sign of Nostalgia: The Cultural Revolution in Perm and Its
Narrative Representations 8. Nostalgia Inside Out: Re-addressing
Post-Soviet Loss in Andrei Astvatsaturov's Novels 9. "Perestroika and the
1990s - Those Were the Best Years of My Life!" Nostalgia for the
Post-Soviet Limbo. Afterword: After Nostalgia: A Backward Glance at a
Backward Glance