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REE 301 Test 219. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed was written with a Western
audience in mind.
How does this affect the way Drakulić presents the stories of East European women? -
ANS-The female experience in the E bloc was very different from the West
Feminism was different, as there were more rights granted to women in the USSR
More digestible for western female audiences
Made distinctions between W and E female experience
Describe the visual style of Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland. How does this visual aesthetic
contribute to the meaning of her autobiographical narrative? - ANS-Lots of darkness
and black negative space
Conveyed a very haunting perspective
Pain of her past
Nostalgia of Yugoslavia and its desire to return to a state of socialism.
Give the date of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. - ANS-August 1968
Give the year in which martial law was imposed in Poland. - ANS-1981
Give the year in which the Soviet Union ceased to exist. - ANS-1991
Give the year in which the war in Yugoslavia began. - ANS-1990
Give the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. - ANS-1989
Give the year of the Hungarian Revolution. - ANS-1956
Give the year when the construction of the Berlin Wall began - ANS-1961
How do you understand the statement "The trivial is political" from Slavenka Drakulić's
How We
Survived Communism and Even Laughed? - ANS-The most mundane parts of life were
affected by what was going on politically & revolutionary activity
Everything is impacted by politics
Example: everyone has the same hair dye because there was only one color available
to everyone
, Lack of diversity & ability for self-expression because authoritarian communism
politicizes all expression
How does Kovály explain the attraction of Communism for people of her generation? -
ANS-It was an ideology that strengthened the collective and reaction to fascist
exceptionalism
How would you respond to the following claim: "Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the
communist past because they were not ready for real freedom"? - ANS-Eastern
european felt less free when the socialist safety net broke down
They preferred that system as opposed to capitalism because of the rise in poverty
It was difficult for them to abandon this engrained ideology because it was all that they
knew.
List the 8 countries comprising the socialist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe. -
ANS-USSR
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
E Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Yugoslavia
What are the main policies of the post-Stalinist New Order? - ANS-Rolling back stalinist
policies
Wanted to peacefully coexist with the west and improve standards of living and political
decentralization
Didn't want to force collectivization (especially of agriculture)
Expand economy to consumer-based
What does "commercial nostalgia" refer to? Provide examples. - ANS-idea that people
are nostalgic for commercial establishments made during this era
Wanted to experience socialism through certain commodities because it creates a
certain feeling
Ability to purchase the nostalgia that they're looking for
Brutalist buildings, cars, soviet style bars, Stalin statues, souvenirs.
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