Table of Contents
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 Petrović
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