![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Even Berlin, famously remaking itself today as the new capital of the new Germany, routinely offers glimpses of historical and social experience more familiar to residents of Warsaw, Budapest, and Moscow than to its many tourists and recently arrived former West Germans. There was “no single practice of communism,” emphasizes Maria Todorova in a discussion of memory and the socialist world, but there were “similar trajectories” and similar blueprints, institutions, and experiences that made what we are calling in this volume the “Second World” something distinctly different from either the “First” or “Third.” 1 The growth in the study of memory, “socialist consumerism,” and difficult post-socialist “transitions,” as well as the more popular forms of Ostalgie in film, exhibits, and literature, all attest to the existence of the distinct and shared experience of socialism. ![]()
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