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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1. Welcome to the House of Fear
Introducing the New Europe
The “Polish Miracle”
The new middle classes and their Bible
A Tale of Two Cities, or On The Real Meaning of Borders
The strange silence of liberal Poland
Communist Ghosts in the Closet
Post-politics of nostalgia
Toxic Ruins
You can scream here
Sexy and Unsexy Countries
Post-transitional cruelty
Dark art for dark times
New architecture of memory, memory as a Commodity
2. Ashes and Brocade
Berlinism, Bowie, Postpunk, New Romantics and Pop-Culture in the Second Cold War
Drang nach Osten
Berlin as capital of Post-DDR melancholia
I could make a transformation
Oh we can beat them, forever and ever
Mauerszene
Fear in the Western World
A Totalitarian Musical
Stilyagi of the New Era
They walked in line
Europophilia
Depeche-Mania
System to fight the SYSTEM
Goodbye, Berlin
3. O Mystical East
Eastern European Orientalism
To despair is to be Romanian
Not Really White
Misbaptized
Poland as a post-colonial country
The Polish Uncanny
The chimeras of Sarmatian melancholia
Catastrophism
Living with phantoms
4. Socialist Realism on Trial
Post-post-modernism, avant-garde, realism and socialist realism in our time
The real in the new reality
Critical art, Engaged art
An “impact on reality”
The New National Art, or the New Socialist Realism
From avant-garde to realism (and back again)
Inside Socialist Reality
We were men of marble
Soap operas about late capitalism
5. Applied Fantastics
On the “catching-up” revolution in the Soviet Bloc
Learning modernity from the east
We will bury you!
The Meaning of the Thaw
Was there a proletarian culture?
Aspirational magazines of Socialism
A Festival of Youth
You and Me and Things: Socialist Objects of Desire
Does it matter? It doesn’t matter! An invitation to destruction
Give me all that I want!
Lost in Contradictory Images
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
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