6 INVISIBLE—INAUDIBLE Albanian Memories of Socialism after the War in Kosovo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES ix
4. Introduction FROM UTOPIA TO PROPAGANDA AND BACK 1
5. PART I RUPTURE AND THE ECONOMIES OF NOSTALGIA
6. 1 FROM ALGOS TO AUTONOMOS Nostalgic Eastern Europe as Postimperial Mania 17
7. 2 STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Socialist Nostalgia and Neoliberalism in Bulgaria 29
8. 3 TODAY’S UNSEEN ENTHUSIASM Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement 46
9. 4 NOSTALGIA FOR THE JNA? Remembering the Army in the Former Yugoslavia 61
10. 5 DIGNITY IN TRANSITION History, Teachers, and the Nation-State in Post-1989 Bulgaria 82
11. 6 INVISIBLE—INAUDIBLE Albanian Memories of Socialism after the War in Kosovo 96
12. 7 “LET’S ALL FREEZE UP UNTIL 2100 OR SO” Nostalgic Directions in Post-Communist Romania 113
13. PART II NOSTALGIC REALMS IN WORD, SOUND, AND SCREEN
14. 8 SONIC NOSTALGIA Music, Memory, and Mythology in Bulgaria, 1990–2005 129
15. 9 “CEAUS¸ESCU HASN’T DIED” Irony as Countermemory in Post-Socialist Romania 155
16. 10 GOOD BYE, LENIN! AUFWIEDERSEHEN GDR On the Social Life of Socialism 177
17. 11 “BUT IT’S OURS” Nostalgia and the Politics of Authenticity in Post-Socialist Hungary 190
18. 12 LOOKING BACK TO THE BRIGHT FUTURE Aleksandr Melikhov’s Red Zion 215
19. 13 DWELLING ON THE RUINS OF SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA Being Bosnian by Remembering Tito 227
20. 14 THE VELVET PRISON IN HINDSIGHT Artistic Discourse in Hungary in the 1990s 244
21. 15 VACANT HISTORY, EMPTY SCREENS Post-Communist German Films of the 1990s 263
22. POSTSCRIPT 278
23. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 290
24. INDEX 295