Retrospective fondness for average life in the Eastern Bloc
Protest against Ukrainian decommunization policies in Donetsk , 2014. The red banner reads, "Our homeland is USSR".
Soviet and GDR Memorabilia for sale in Berlin in 2006
Yugoslav symbols during a carnival in Ptuj , Slovenia, in 2013
Communist nostalgia , also called communism nostalgia or socialist nostalgia , is the nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior communist states .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Examples of such nostalgia can be observed in East Germany , Poland , the former Soviet Union , former Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Hungary , Romania ,[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] the Czech Republic , Albania , and Slovakia .[ 8] Businesses have commercialized and commodified communist nostalgia in the form of communist chic and other commodities and products reminiscent of the former era.[ 8]
^ Joakim Ekman, Jonas Linde, Communist nostalgia and the consolidation of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe , Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 21(3):354-374 · September 2005 doi :10.1080/13523270500183512
^ Prusik, Monika; Lewicka, Maria (2016). "Nostalgia for Communist Times and Autobiographical Memory: Negative Present or Positive Past?" . Political Psychology . 37 (5): 677–693. doi :10.1111/pops.12330 .
^ Bartmanski, Dominik, Successful icons of failed time: rethinking post-communist nostalgia , Acta sociologica , vol. 54. № 3. 2011, pp. 213—231, doi :10.1177/0001699311412625 .
^ Anghel, Stefan Costin (3 June 2014). "Would Romanians Vote for Ceaușescu If He Were Alive Today?" . Vice . Retrieved 28 January 2019 .
^ Ghodsee, Kristen ; Mead, Julia (2018). "What Has Socialism Ever Done For Women?" (PDF) . Catalyst . 2 (2): 108. Retrieved 19 January 2019 . A 2013 poll of 1,055 adult Romanians found that only a third reported that their lives were worse before 1989: 44 percent said their lives were better, and 16 percent said there was no change.
^ Maria Todorova , Zsuzsa Gille, Post-communist nostalgia , Berghahn Books, 2010 (ISBN 978-1-84545-671-9 , hardcover), 2012 (ISBN 978-0-85745-643-4 , paperback), 2013 (ISBN 978-0-85745-644-1 )
^ Besliu, Raluca (13 April 2014). "Communist nostalgia in Romania" . openDemocracy . Retrieved 17 March 2021 .
^ a b "Thanks for the memories" . The Economist . 9 June 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2019 .