Book review: Post-communist nostalgia

"Post-Communist Nostalgia." Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille (eds.) Berghahn Books. April 2012. --- Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. This volume is successful in investigating the diverse meanings and expressions of nostalgia in former Communist countries, finds Lorenzo Ferrari.