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Red Hangover Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism

Ghodsee Kristen
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780822369349
Publisert
2017-11-13
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Ghodsee Kristen

Biografisk notat

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.

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"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and <i>Red Hangover</i> is the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly compelling." - Patrick Iber (Los Angeles Review of Books) "I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the last. <i>Red Hangover</i> is the most complex, melding personal and professional experience with history and political theory...." - Deena Stryker (OpEd News) "This is an extraordinary book . . . Different genres are employed to great effect, offering a multidimensional view of the postcommunist world. . . . A real contribution to the re-narration of European history after 1989." - Wim de Jong (H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews) "Kristen Ghodsee wrote<i> Red Hangover </i>for the nonexpert, especially for the student born after 1989 who is trying to make sense of the present. The truly broad readership I can envision for this book, however, encompasses not only young people but rather anyone concerned about the fate of democracy." - Adrienne J. Cohen (American Ethnologist) "<i>Red Hangover </i>is a brave book, one that brims with urgency concerning the current state of the world and the possibilities for improving it-possibilities that are enhanced, she believes, by taking the communist experience seriously. In short, she makes the study of eastern Europe, both under socialism and after it, crucial in effort to envisage a more viable future." - Katherine Verdery (Slavic Review)

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 massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989. Ghodsee shows how recent major crises-from the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Syrian Civil War to the rise of Islamic State and the influx of migrants in Europe-are linked to mistakes made after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc when fantasies about the triumph of free markets and liberal democracy blinded Western leaders to the human costs of "regime change." Just as the communist ideal has become permanently tainted by its association with the worst excesses of twentieth-century Eastern European regimes, today the democratic ideal is increasingly sullied by its links to the ravages of neoliberalism. An accessible introduction to the history of European state socialism and postcommunism, Red Hangover reveals how the events of 1989 continue to shape the world today.
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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.
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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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"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and <i>Red Hangover</i> is the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly compelling." - Patrick Iber (Los Angeles Review of Books) "I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the last. <i>Red Hangover</i> is the most complex, melding personal and professional experience with history and political theory...." - Deena Stryker (OpEd News) "This is an extraordinary book . . . Different genres are employed to great effect, offering a multidimensional view of the postcommunist world. . . . A real contribution to the re-narration of European history after 1989." - Wim de Jong (H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews) "Kristen Ghodsee wrote<i> Red Hangover </i>for the nonexpert, especially for the student born after 1989 who is trying to make sense of the present. The truly broad readership I can envision for this book, however, encompasses not only young people but rather anyone concerned about the fate of democracy." - Adrienne J. Cohen (American Ethnologist) "<i>Red Hangover </i>is a brave book, one that brims with urgency concerning the current state of the world and the possibilities for improving it-possibilities that are enhanced, she believes, by taking the communist experience seriously. In short, she makes the study of eastern Europe, both under socialism and after it, crucial in effort to envisage a more viable future." - Katherine Verdery (Slavic Review)

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 massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989. Ghodsee shows how recent major crises-from the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Syrian Civil War to the rise of Islamic State and the influx of migrants in Europe-are linked to mistakes made after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc when fantasies about the triumph of free markets and liberal democracy blinded Western leaders to the human costs of "regime change." Just as the communist ideal has become permanently tainted by its association with the worst excesses of twentieth-century Eastern European regimes, today the democratic ideal is increasingly sullied by its links to the ravages of neoliberalism. An accessible introduction to the history of European state socialism and postcommunism, Red Hangover reveals how the events of 1989 continue to shape the world today.
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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.
Les mer
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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822369349
Publisert
2017-11-13
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Ghodsee Kristen

Biografisk notat

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.

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