Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism

✍ Scribed by Kristen Ghodsee

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past.

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