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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Red hangover [Texte imprimé] : legacies of twentieth-century communism / Kristen Ghodsee
Publication : 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-227 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
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
Sujet(s) : Postcommunisme
Europe de l'Est -- 1989-....
Genre ou forme : Roman
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780822369349. - ISBN 0822369346. - ISBN 9780822369493. - ISBN 0822369494 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454510186
Notice n° :
FRBNF45451018
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
