Introduction: Postsocialism and the politics of emotions

Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-33

  Svašek, Maruška ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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