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Red Hangover - Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Hardcover)
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Red Hangover - Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism (Hardcover)
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In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of
twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall
fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived
experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women
across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic
upheavals in their lives after 1989. Ghodsee shows how recent major
crises-from the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Syrian Civil
War to the rise of Islamic State and the influx of migrants in
Europe-are linked to mistakes made after the collapse of the
Eastern Bloc when fantasies about the triumph of free markets and
liberal democracy blinded Western leaders to the human costs of
"regime change." Just as the communist ideal has become permanently
tainted by its association with the worst excesses of
twentieth-century Eastern European regimes, today the democratic
ideal is increasingly sullied by its links to the ravages of
neoliberalism. An accessible introduction to the history of
European state socialism and postcommunism, Red Hangover reveals
how the events of 1989 continue to shape the world today.
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