Red hangover : legacies of twentieth-century communism

Red hangover : legacies of twentieth-century communism / Kristen Ghodsee.

In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the mass...

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Main Author: Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [North Carolina] ; London : Duke University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Post-communism.
Post-communism > Fiction.
Europe, Eastern > History > 1989-
Europe, Eastern > History > 1989- > Fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: Freundschaft
  • Postsocialist freedoms
  • Fires
  • Cucumbers
  • Pieces (fiction)
  • Belgrade, 2015 (fiction)
  • Reuniting the divided
  • #mauerfall25
  • The enemy of my enemy
  • A tale of two typewriters
  • Blackwashing history
  • Gross domestic orgasms
  • My mother and a clock
  • Venerating Nazis to vilify commies
  • "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"
  • Three Bulgarian jokes
  • Post-Zvyarism: a fable about animals on a farm (fiction)
  • Interview with a former member of the Democratic Party of the United States (fiction)
  • Democracy for the penguins.

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