| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Journeys of the 1844 Manuscripts: Historiographic Shifts in Marxist Thought -- Gender and Social Reproduction the Socialist Way -- In the Shadows of Humanism -- Stalinism to Post-Stalinism: Shifting Histories, Shifting Readings -- Violent Revivals -- Uncanny Symbioses: Ethnonationalism and the Global Orientations of Bulgarian Socialism |
| Summary |
"Post-Stalinism--the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe--gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged new global imaginaries. With a focus on socialist Bulgaria, Restless History traces the dynamic polemical and social shifts that took place during this period. With anti-Stalinist and humanist visions, socialist societies rebuilt their material and social worlds around social-reproductive needs such as care, housing, education, leisure, rest, and access to culture and the arts. In the sphere of global politics, they created anti-racist, feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist solidarities that challenged Western hegemony and reordered the global geographies of power. Yet the changes of the period also took some troubling directions: humanist imaginaries of socialist progress, modernity, and nationhood welcomed ideas of national and social homogeneity, opening the doors to ethnonationalism. Following the promising as well as troubling moments in the history of Bulgarian post-Stalinism, Zhivka Valiavicharska brings to life the complexities of real lived socialism. Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond--in all its tensions and contradictions--to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Bulgaria |
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Communism |
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Eastern |
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Eastern Europe |
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Europe |
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History |
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Political science |
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Russian & Former Soviet Union |
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Socialism |
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World |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Socialism -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century
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Socialism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
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Communism -- History.
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HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
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Communism
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Socialism
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Bulgaria
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Eastern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0228007828 |
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9780228007838 |
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0228007836 |
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9780228007821 |
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