Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have
gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism
remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the
postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary
spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism,
of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic
writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and
their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the
description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods,
parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of
literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of
some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of
the »second world« today.