This book serves an invaluable function by capturing the rich complexity of nostalgia and marking a moment when questions of postmodern historiography can be applied to a past, the recent Communist one, for which the pressures toward absolute evaluations are immense. It] summarizes some of the scholarship that one might include with the "contemporary history" of the region...This volume should have broad general appeal across a market for post-Communist cultural studies and the study of memory.H-Habsburg
Overall, this an impressive set of essays that makes a weighty...
This book serves an invaluable function by capturing the rich complexity of nostalgia and marking a moment when questions of postmodern historiogra...
