Post-Soviet Nostalgia

Otto Boele is Associate Professor of Russian literature at Leiden University. Boris Noordenbos is Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Ksenia Robbe is Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Literature at Leiden University.

Introduction: The Many Practices of Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Affect, Appropriation, Contestation 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 2. Second-hand Nostalgia: On Charms and Spells of the Soviet Trukhliashechka 3. Village Voice: Peasant Nostalgia in Recent Oral History 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 5. Remembering Chernobyl Through the Lens of Post-Soviet Nostalgia 6. To Be Continued: Post-Soviet Nostalgia in Sergei Miroshnichenko’s Time-Lapse Documentary Series Born in the USSR Part III: Contestation 7. Under the Sign of Nostalgia: The Cultural Revolution in Perm and Its Narrative Representations 8. Nostalgia Inside Out: Re-addressing Post-Soviet Loss in Andrei Astvatsaturov’s Novels 9. "Perestroika and the 1990s – Those Were the Best Years of My Life!" Nostalgia for the Post-Soviet Limbo. Afterword: After Nostalgia: A Backward Glance at a Backward Glance