Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism

by Kristen R. Ghodsee and Rebecca Reviere

Book Overview

Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past. Ghodsee uses Bulgaria, the Eastern European nation where she has spent the most time, as a lens for exploring the broader transition from communism to democracy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351021
• ISBN13: 9780822351023
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"