Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and Orientalist - in contrast to the civilized West - disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism.