Communist nostalgia

Protest against Ukrainian decommunization policies in Donetsk, 2014. The red banner reads, "Our homeland USSR".
Soviet and GDR Memorabilia for sale in Berlin in 2006
Yugoslav symbols during a carnival in Ptuj, Slovenia, in 2013

Communist nostalgia, also called communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia, is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior communist states.[1][2][3]

Examples of such nostalgia can be observed in East Germany, Poland, the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania,[4][5][6][7] the Czech Republic, Albania, and Slovakia.[8] Businesses have commercialized and commodified communist nostalgia in the form of communist chic and other commodities and products reminiscent of the former era.[8]

  1. ^ Joakim Ekman, Jonas Linde, Communist nostalgia and the consolidation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,  Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 21(3):354-374 · September 2005 doi:10.1080/13523270500183512
  2. ^ Prusik, Monika; Lewicka, Maria (2016). "Nostalgia for Communist Times and Autobiographical Memory: Negative Present or Positive Past?". Political Psychology. 37 (5): 677–693. doi:10.1111/pops.12330.
  3. ^ Bartmanski, Dominik, Successful icons of failed time: rethinking post-communist nostalgia, Acta sociologica, vol. 54. № 3. 2011, pp. 213—231, doi:10.1177/0001699311412625.
  4. ^ Anghel, Stefan Costin (3 June 2014). "Would Romanians Vote for Ceaușescu If He Were Alive Today?". Vice. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  5. ^ Ghodsee, Kristen; Mead, Julia (2018). "What Has Socialism Ever Done For Women?" (PDF). Catalyst. 2 (2): 108. Retrieved 19 January 2019. A 2013 poll of 1,055 adult Romanians found that only a third reported that their lives were worse before 1989: 44 percent said their lives were better, and 16 percent said there was no change.
  6. ^ Maria Todorova, Zsuzsa Gille, Post-communist nostalgia, Berghahn Books, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-84545-671-9, hardcover), 2012 (ISBN 978-0-85745-643-4, paperback), 2013 (ISBN 978-0-85745-644-1)
  7. ^ Besliu, Raluca (13 April 2014). "Communist nostalgia in Romania". openDemocracy. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Thanks for the memories". The Economist. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2019.

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