Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings: Neo-Gothic Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989

Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings explores the ghosts of colonial and totalitarian pasts that have resurfaced across international political and cultural landscapes since the collapse of the USSR. Merging postcolonial, post-totalitarian, postcommunist and Gothic frameworks, the volume examines largely overlooked dimensions of cultural decolonisation, focusing on the unsettling "hauntings" of unresolved memory traces of Russo-Soviet domination in former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet republics. Working within a wide intertextual field of social, cultural and ideological discourses, it fosters productive exchange across disciplinary boundaries and brings together voices from Europe and North America. Contributors draw on transmedia approaches--literature, visual art, film--as well as transnational and translingual perspectives, illuminating the diverse forms the Gothic has taken in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and its persistent engagement with history, ideology and politics.

Author: Svitlana Krys
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 05/26/2026
Series: International Gothic
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781526191038