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
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.
"A banquet of a book, full of unexpected dishes.... Ghodsee writes
with moral seriousness and exceptional force, and Red Hangover is
the rare academic book that is compulsively readable and thoroughly
compelling."
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
"I have read and loved all Ghodsee's books, each one more than the
last. Red Hangover is the most complex, melding personal and
professional experience with history and political theory...."
*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."
*H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews*
"Kristen Ghodsee wrote Red Hangover 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."
*American Ethnologist*
"Red Hangover 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."
*Slavic Review*
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