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Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee returns to the show to discuss Red Hangover, her new book on the traumas of post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. Unique for an academic text, the book is a series of essays with fictional sketches that evoke the complexit...

Jacobin Radio · Jacobin

November 27, 201751m 59s

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Ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee returns to the show to discuss Red Hangover, her new book on the traumas of post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. Unique for an academic text, the book is a series of essays with fictional sketches that evoke the complexities of life under Communism and the poverty and displacement that came with its demise.