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Repercussions of communism are still felt throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, specters of communism remain vivid enough to inspire a wide range of contemporary cultural production, from video games to museum exhibits. This volume demonstrates how the region remains in a state of transitioning away from communism, not having secured a fully post-communist identity.
The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to extend debates on the lasting impact of the communist era across Central and Eastern Europe with chapters thematically threaded through concepts including curation, immersion, interaction, humor and authenticity. A ‘trauma/nostalgia paradigm’ emerges as the tissue connecting the plurality of post-communist efforts employed to address the region’s contested pasts.
Twelve original essays by contributors from both ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the region detail how twenty-first-century cultural productions reengage the communist past. The impact of this past is seen as fundamental to understanding and shaping Central and Eastern European identities.
Endorsements
Endorsements
“A must read for anyone interested in the contemporary resonance of communism and the dynamic of public history and heritage in Central and Eastern Europe.”
Sabina Mihelj, Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis, Loughborough University, UK
“Replaying Communism is an invaluable contribution to the study of memory and trauma in post-socialist societies.”
Gerard Delanty, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sussex University, UK
“It is terribly difficult to be a successful opposition party today. One must accumulate a wide variety of knowledge, and this excellent volume can help with this.”
Gábor Demszky, Mayor of Budapest (1990–2010) and founding member of The Alliance of Free Democrats Hungarian Liberal Party
“Replaying Communism’s theoretical underpinnings of the trauma/nostalgia paradigm can fruitfully serve as a template beyond the regional coverage of the volume.”
Maria Todorova, Professor Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
“This volume provides a compelling intervention in contemporary memory studies.”
David Clarke, Professor of Modern German Studies, Cardiff University, UK
“Replaying Communism is a compelling examination of the interplay of nostalgia and trauma that determines how contemporary cultural productions re-imagine the communist era.”
Maya Nadkarni, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College, US
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Illustrations
Foreword - Aniko Imre
Foreword - Aniko Imre
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction The Trauma/Nostalgia Paradigm in Post-communist Cultural Production - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
Introduction The Trauma/Nostalgia Paradigm in Post-communist Cultural Production - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
Chapter 1 Drawing the Romanian Revolution at the History Museum of Brasov - Carmen Levick
Chapter 1 Drawing the Romanian Revolution at the History Museum of Brasov - Carmen Levick
Chapter 2 Retelling Soviet-era Anecdotes in Russian Online Media - Kateryna Yeremieieva
Chapter 2 Retelling Soviet-era Anecdotes in Russian Online Media - Kateryna Yeremieieva
Chapter 3 Gábor Zsigmond Papp’s Retro Series and the Cultural Afterlife of Hungarian State Propaganda Films - Lucia Szemetová
Chapter 3 Gábor Zsigmond Papp’s Retro Series and the Cultural Afterlife of Hungarian State Propaganda Films - Lucia Szemetová
Chapter 4 Communicating Post-communist Identity through the Museum of Life Under Communism, Warsaw - Samantha Vaughn
Chapter 4 Communicating Post-communist Identity through the Museum of Life Under Communism, Warsaw - Samantha Vaughn
Chapter 5 -The Museumification of Victims of Communism and Bulgaria’s Belene Forced Labor Camp - Georgeta Nazarska
Chapter 5 -The Museumification of Victims of Communism and Bulgaria’s Belene Forced Labor Camp - Georgeta Nazarska
Chapter 6 The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Grutas Park and Lithuania’s Narrative of the Communist Past - Katarzyna Jarosz
Chapter 6 The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Grutas Park and Lithuania’s Narrative of the Communist Past - Katarzyna Jarosz
Chapter 7 Televising Division and Reunification in the German TV Series Deutschland 89 - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
Chapter 7 Televising Division and Reunification in the German TV Series Deutschland 89 - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
Chapter 8 -Socialist Settings in Contemporary Hungarian and Czech Quality Television - Veronika Hermann
Chapter 8 -Socialist Settings in Contemporary Hungarian and Czech Quality Television - Veronika Hermann
Chapter 9 (Re)Playing the Hungarian Revolution in Contemporary Board Games - David Scott Diffrient and Sam Ernst
Chapter 9 (Re)Playing the Hungarian Revolution in Contemporary Board Games - David Scott Diffrient and Sam Ernst
Chapter 10 Uprooted Heritage as Curatorial Method and Artistic Medium in the Post-Yugoslav Context - Nataša Jagdhuhn
Chapter 10 Uprooted Heritage as Curatorial Method and Artistic Medium in the Post-Yugoslav Context - Nataša Jagdhuhn
Chapter 11 Germany’s Traumatic Communist Past through Contemporary Radio Life Narratives - Iana Nikitenko
Chapter 11 Germany’s Traumatic Communist Past through Contemporary Radio Life Narratives - Iana Nikitenko
Chapter 12 The Hauntology of Communism in an Estonian Computer Role-playing Game - Claus Toft-Nielsen
Chapter 12 The Hauntology of Communism in an Estonian Computer Role-playing Game - Claus Toft-Nielsen
Conclusion - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
Conclusion - Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi
About the Authors
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index
Bibliography
Index
Original call for chapters
Original call for chapters
If you'd like your research to be considered for publication in an edited collection, check out our Call for Chapter submissions below.
After a successful symposium that took place on 1 December 2023, the co-founders of the multi-disciplinary ‘Replaying Communism’ project (which received funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council) are looking for contributors to an edited collection entitled: Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production.
The book explores the cultural memory of communist regimes across Central and Eastern Europe, as portrayed in twenty-first-century media, cultural sites, and political rhetoric. The editors welcome submissions that examine contemporary portrayals of the communist occupation of CEE (1945-1991).
The editors are looking for chapters that ask one or more of the following questions:
· Why is contemporary media ‘replaying communism’?
· How do various media, cultural sites, and publications represent the communist past?
· How and in what ways have representations of ‘Eastern European’ identities changed?
· How does contemporary media and culture created by artists/journalists born after 1989 differ to that by creatives who experienced communism first-hand? And what impact is this having on the narrative of the communist era?
· Who controls representations of the communist era (large technology conglomerates, governments, cultural institutions, privately owned media outlets, etc.) and in what ways does this shape our understanding of communism?
· What can we gain from both scholarly and creative engagements with the synergies between the communist era and today?
The edited collection welcomes analyses of cultural memories of the communist era in fictive and non-fictive accounts across all media and cultural institutions from a wide range of perspectives that include:
· Nostalgia for communism or Ostalgie
· Postcolonial perspectives (Eastern European identities)
· Heritage and museum studies
· Archiving communism
· Media studies (television; film; journalism; gaming)
· Literary studies
· Art historical approaches
· Musicology
Please submit your abstracts (250 words) and bio to the editors Dr Lucy Jeffery and Dr Anna Váradi replayingcommunism@gmail.com by 19 January 2024.
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