Post-Soviet Nostalgia : Confronting the Empire’s Legacies (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Many Practices of Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Affect, Appropriation, Contestation Otto Boele, Boris Noordenbos, and Ksenia Robbe Part I: Affect 1. Journeying to the Golden Spaces of Childhood: Nostalgic Longing in the Online Community The USSR Our Motherland Through the Visual Image of the Soviet Toy Mandy Duijn 2. Second-hand Nostalgia: On Charms and Spells of the Soviet Trukhliashechka Serguei Alex. Oushakine 3. Village Voice: Peasant Nostalgia in Recent Oral History Kathleen Parthe Part II: Appropriation 4. Longing for Fear and Darkness: "Oppositional Grassroots Stalinism" in the 1970s-80s and Its Influence on Legitimizing Political Elites in Today’s Russia Ilya Kukulin 5. Remembering Chernobyl Through the Lens of Post-Soviet Nostalgia Emily D. Johnson 6. To Be Continued: Post-Soviet Nostalgia in Sergei Miroshnichenko’s Time-Lapse Documentary Series Born in the USSR Boris Noordenbos Part III: Contestation 7. Under the Sign of Nostalgia: The Cultural Revolution in Perm and Its Narrative Representations Marina Abasheva and Vladimir Abashev 8. Nostalgia Inside Out: Re-addressing Post-Soviet Loss in Andrei Astvatsaturov’s Novels Ksenia Robbe 9. "Perestroika and the 1990s ? Those Were the Best Years of My Life!" Nostalgia for the Post-Soviet Limbo Otto Boele Afterword: After Nostalgia: A Backward Glance at a Backward Glance Kevin M.F. Platt