The Postcommunist Supplement: The Revision of Postcolonial Theory from the East European Quarter

Abstract Postcolonial criticism appears today as the sole champion of study colonialism and its aftermath. However, viewed from post-Soviet Europe, it displays a number flaws lacunae: an amputated atlas modern which ignores experience Eastern Europe under Soviet colonial occupation, binarism that fails to explain more complicated mechanisms cultural colonization, in-built ideological bent blinds trans-ideological nature whereby mutually incompatible ideologies have functioned both hegemonic counter-discourses colonialism. While has found general framework postcolonialism useful, postcommunist studies worked inside these theoretical interstices supplement orthodoxy with equally sophisticated analytical tools seem adapted deal trans-colonialism in global age. This article explains added value critique (post)communist coloniality: how complemented routine charts during after Cold War by accurately mapping complex relationships between all “Three Worlds”; by-passed simple binary imagination radical order address political ambivalence ethical dilemmas (post)coloniality where there are no fixed hero/villain positions; replaced Manichean anti-capitalist discourses flexible open perspective on convoluted rapports Cold-War collapse empire.