POST-COMMUNIST NOSTALGIA

POST-COMMUNIST NOSTALGIA

Contents

Contents

List of Figures

List of Figures

Introduction: From Utopia to Propaganda and Back

Introduction: From Utopia to Propaganda and Back

Part I — Rupture and the Economies of Nostalgia

Part I — Rupture and the Economies of Nostalgia

Chapter 1 — From Algos to Autonomos: Nostalgic Eastern Europe as Postimperial Mania

Chapter 1 — From Algos to Autonomos: Nostalgic Eastern Europe as Postimperial Mania

Chapter 2 — Strange Bedfellows: Socialist Nostalgia and Neoliberalism in Bulgaria

Chapter 2 — Strange Bedfellows: Socialist Nostalgia and Neoliberalism in Bulgaria

Chapter 3 — Today's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement

Chapter 3 — Today's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement

Chapter 4 — Nostalgia for the JNA? Remembering the Army in the Former Yugoslavia

Chapter 4 — Nostalgia for the JNA? Remembering the Army in the Former Yugoslavia

Chapter 5 — Dignity in Transition: History, Teachers, and the Nation-State in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Chapter 5 — Dignity in Transition: History, Teachers, and the Nation-State in Post-1989 Bulgaria

Chapter 6 — Invisible—Inaudible: Albanian Memories of Socialism after the War in Kosovo

Chapter 6 — Invisible—Inaudible: Albanian Memories of Socialism after the War in Kosovo

Chapter 7 — "Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so": Nostalgic Directions in Post-Communist Romania

Chapter 7 — "Let's all freeze up until 2100 or so": Nostalgic Directions in Post-Communist Romania

Part II — Nostalgic Realms in Word, Sound, and Screen

Part II — Nostalgic Realms in Word, Sound, and Screen

Chapter 8 — Sonic Nostalgia: Music, Memory, and Mythology in Bulgaria, 1990–2005

Chapter 8 — Sonic Nostalgia: Music, Memory, and Mythology in Bulgaria, 1990–2005

Chapter 9 — "Ceausescu Hasn't Died": Irony as Countermemory in Post-Socialist Romania

Chapter 9 — "Ceausescu Hasn't Died": Irony as Countermemory in Post-Socialist Romania

Chapter 10 — Good Bye, Lenin! Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism

Chapter 10 — Good Bye, Lenin! Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of Socialism

Chapter 11 — "But it's ours": Nostalgia and the Politics of Authenticity in Post-Socialist Hungary

Chapter 11 — "But it's ours": Nostalgia and the Politics of Authenticity in Post-Socialist Hungary

Chapter 12 — Looking Back to the Bright Future: Aleksandr Melikhov's Red Zion

Chapter 12 — Looking Back to the Bright Future: Aleksandr Melikhov's Red Zion

Chapter 13 — Dwelling on the Ruins of Socialist Yugoslavia: Being Bosnian by Remembering Tito

Chapter 13 — Dwelling on the Ruins of Socialist Yugoslavia: Being Bosnian by Remembering Tito

Chapter 14 — The Velvet Prison in Hindsight: Artistic Discourse in Hungary in the 1990s

Chapter 14 — The Velvet Prison in Hindsight: Artistic Discourse in Hungary in the 1990s

Chapter 15 — Vacant History, Empty Screens: Post-Communist German Films of the 1990s

Chapter 15 — Vacant History, Empty Screens: Post-Communist German Films of the 1990s

Postscript

Postscript

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Index

Index