Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:48:09 +0200‘Velvet Retro’: historian Veronika Pehe on Czech pop culture, (anti)heroes, collective memory and post-communist nostalgia – for resistancehttps://english.radio.cz/velvet-retro-historian-veronika-pehe-czech-pop-culture-antiheroes-collective-8681919© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalPopular films, TV series and novels can profoundly shape a nation’s collective memory and cement the evolving historical master narrative. In her new book, ‘Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture’, historian Veronika Pehe examines the evolving ways the era has been portrayed since 1989 – from early comedies to tragic narratives that cast the past as trauma.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/pehe_veronika.jpg?timestamp=1591590484 ‘Velvet Retro’: historian Veronika Pehe on Czech pop culture, (anti)heroes, collective memory and post-communist nostalgia – for resistance https://english.radio.cz/velvet-retro-historian-veronika-pehe-czech-pop-culture-antiheroes-collective-8681919 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9