Maya Nadkarni – författare

In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of "remains"—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era "Bambi" soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime's informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the future—and to mourn futures that never materialized.

In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of "remains"—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era "Bambi" soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime's informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the future—and to mourn futures that never materialized.

Охватывая в своем исследовании более двух десятилетий политической, социальной и экономической трансформации, в ходе которых Венгрия прошла путь от оптимизма конца восьмидесятых и до недавнего правого поворота, Майя Надкарни анализирует следы социализма — от демонтированных статуй Ленина до газировки Bambi, от дискредитированных официальных нарративов и до публикации скандальных секретов информаторов коммунистического режима. Ее анализ показывает, что эти «пережитки» были не просто остатками нежелательного прошлого. В конечном счете, борьба за судьбу социалистического наследия в постсоциалистической Венгрии представляла собой попытку определить будущее — и оплакать то будущее, которое так и не наступило.