Our podcast about Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production (CEU Press, 2025) is available! It was great fun recording a conversation about the book's main theoretical frameworks, case studies, and arguments with the historian and Commissioning Editor for CEU and Amsterdam University Press: Dr Andrea Talaber. 

With Andrea, we discussed what we mean by "replaying" communism, the commercialisation of the past, instances of intergenerational trauma, and how the communist past is impacting the European idea today. 

You can listen to our podcast episode for New Books Network here. 

We're delighted to work with Memento Park as we develop our research for this project. In this article by Jack Power, Lucy was asked to talk about Communism's impact on Hungary. She describes the role of museums like Memento as avoiding the trap of replacing Soviet memorialisation with nationalist mythmaking in order to provide the visitor with an impartial platform from which to assess - either personally or academically - the legacy of the given communist regime. You can read the full newspaper article here.