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Introduction: The Many Practices of Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Affect, Appropriation, Contestation Part I: Affect 1. Journeying to the Golden Spaces of Childhood: Nostalgic Longing in the Online Community The USSR Our Motherland Through the Visual Image of the Soviet Toy 2. Second-hand Nostalgia: On Charms and Spells of the Soviet Trukhliashechka 3. Village Voice: Peasant Nostalgia in Recent Oral History Part II: Appropriation 4. Longing for Fear and Darkness: "Oppositional Grassroots Stalinism" in the 1970s-80s and Its Influence on Legitimizing Political Elites in Todays Russia 5. Remembering Chernobyl Through the Lens of Post-Soviet Nostalgia 6. To Be Continued: Post-Soviet Nostalgia in Sergei Miroshnichenkos Time-Lapse Documentary Series Born in the USSR Part III: Contestation 7. Under the Sign of Nostalgia: The Cultural Revolution in Perm and Its Narrative Representations 8. Nostalgia Inside Out: Re-addressing Post-Soviet Loss in Andrei Astvatsaturovs Novels 9. "Perestroika and the 1990s - Those Were the Best Years of My Life!" Nostalgia for the Post-Soviet Limbo. Afterword: After Nostalgia: A Backward Glance at a Backward Glance