Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe Political and Cultural Representations of the Past /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Raudvere, Catharina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe,
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Historiography.; Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Civilization-History.; World politics.; History of Modern Europe.; Memory Studies.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Cultural History.; Political History.

Where nostalgia was once dismissed a wistful dream of a never-never land, the academic focus has shifted to how pieces of the past are assembled as the elements in alternative political thinking as well as in artistic expression. The creative use of the past points to the complexities of the concept...