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“We're nostalgic but we're not crazy”: Retrofitting the Past in Russia
Author(s) -
OUSHAKINE SERGUEI ALEX.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the russian review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.136
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9434
pISSN - 0036-0341
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9434.2007.00453.x
Subject(s) - slavic languages , citation , slavic studies , history , library science , art history , classics , computer science
In the scholarship on cultural changes in postsocialist countries it has become a cliché to single out nostalgia as an increasingly prominent symbolic practice through which the legacy of the previous period makes itself visible. Scholars from the Balkans are talking about Yugonostalgia and its fascination with “the successes of the golden Yugoslav national teams and clubs, personalities and elements of political life.”1 In a similar fashion, cultural critics of the (former) German Democratic Republic draw attention to the phenomenon of Ostalgia centered on Ostprodukte, the items of daily consumption from the socialist time, that are available again in the eastern part of Germany.2 Often perceived as a reaction to the recent