Red Hangover

Autorentext
Kristen Ghodsee

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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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