Future of (Post)Socialism

John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and the author of The Syntax of Russian. Dijana Jelača teaches in the Film Department at Brooklyn College and is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Danijela Lugarić is Assistant Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the coeditor (with Jelača and Maša Kolanović) of The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other.

"This volume uniquely brings together a range of disciplines, beyond anthropology as the conventional discipline for exploring postsocialism, and a range of cases across post-Soviet space. Most importantly, it refreshingly engages with an exciting framework dealing with time and space. Its talk about futures—the futures of socialism and the futures of postsocialism—is a novel aspect that sets it apart." — Johanna Bockman, author of Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The "Radiant Future" of Spatial and Temporal Dis/OrientationsDijana Jelača and Danijela LugarićPart I. New Approaches to (Post)Socialism: The Theory in Transition1. The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern EuropeDavid Ost2. Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist PresentDavid M. Kotz3. "Failing the Metronome": Queer Reading of the Postsocialist TransitionJelisaveta Blagojevićand Jovana TimotijevićPart II. (Post)Socialist Space(s)4. "Brand" New States: Postsocialism, the Global Economy of Symbols, and the Challenges of National DifferentiationRobert A. Saunders5. Putting the ‘Public’ in Public Goods: Space Wars in a Post- Soviet Dacha CommunityOlga Shevchenko6. Baku’s Soviet Vnye: The Post- Soviet Creation of a Soviet (?) PastHeather D. DeHaanPart III. Memories of the Future7. Back to the Future of (Post)Socialism: The Afterlife of Socialism in Post- Yugoslav Cultural SpaceMaša Kolanović8. In Friction Mode: Contesting the Memory of Socialism in Zagreb’s Marshal Tito SquareSanja Potkonjak and Nevena Škrbić Alempijević9. The Futures of Postsocialist Childhoods: (Re)Imagining the Latvian Child, Nation, and Nature in Educational LiteratureIveta SilovaAfterwordGary MarkerContributorsIndex