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
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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