Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture by Veronika Pehe

Worlds of Memory #2

Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture

Veronika Pehe

190 pages hardcover

1 edition

nonfiction history politics medium-paced
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 Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in t...

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