Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

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I thank my colleagues at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast: Dominic Bryan, Catherine Boone, Eamonn Hughes, Gillian McIntosh, Valerie Miller, and Joan Watson for their support during the preparation of this work. I also thank the staff of the Northern Ireland Political Collection of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast: Yvonne Murphy, Alistair Gordon, and Ross Moore for their ssistance. In addition to those mentioned above, Professors Richard English and Rick Wilford of the School of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast, provided invaluable comments on some of the material. Several reference sources have been invaluable in the writing of this dictionary: the CAIN website, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1999, Lost Lives, Interpreting Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Elections website, and Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968–1999. I particularly thank the authors of these works: Martin Melaugh, Brendan Lynn, Fionnuala McKenna, Sydney Elliott, the late W. D. Flackes, David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton, David McVea, Nicholas Whyte, and my colleague Paul Bew for creating the essential works of reference mentioned above. Any serious researcher of the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process should refer to these sources for more detailed information on the Northern Ireland Troubles and peace process. Finally, thanks are also due to my editor, Jon Woronoff, for his help and patience in seeing this work through to completion.

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