11. Looking back: communist melancholia and post-socialist pains
- Author:
- Anca Pusca
- Publication Date:
- 07-2014
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Journal of International Relations and Development
- Institution:
- Central and East European International Studies Association
- Abstract:
- Remembering communism in Central and Eastern Europe is a tricky business, as memories are increasingly put on display through practices of museumisation, collective and personal biographies and official investigations. Everything — from former factories to architecture, monuments and statues, to secret service files and other material reminders — is carefully reshaped into politically convenient, or in some cases inconvenient, discourses.
- Topic:
- Security, Foreign Policy, Political Theory, and Bilateral Relations
- Political Geography:
- Europe