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...
November 27, 2017
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November 27, 2017
Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe
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Behind the News: Kristen Ghodsee on Post-Communist Eastern Europe
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Ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee returns to the show to discuss <i>Red Hangover</i>, 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.
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