Ebook: When the World Turned Upside-Down : Cultural Representations of Post-1989 Eastern Europe

This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe and how these manifest themselves in cultural representations. It starts out from findings in the academic field of OC post-socialism', claiming that OC Easterners' and OC Westerners' are still very much under the influence of the socialisation they underwent during the Cold War and its aftermath. As a consequence, the revolutions of 1989 and 1990 and the subsequent opportunities for exchange did not necessarily brin..."