What came down with the wall was not only the grim reality of a failed utopia, but also more than 200 years of continuous struggle. The impact of 9 November 1989 on the hopes of the left cannot be underestimated. The dialectic of the twentieth century was broken” (2). As he puts it, “an entire representation of the twentieth century. It also refocused the lens through which the past was viewed. The collapse of the Soviet Union, as he makes clear, had an impact not only on the future direction of the countries of the Soviet Bloc, but also on the future of the left.
Traverso sets out the argument of Left-Wing Melancholia against the background of a political landscape thrown into disarray in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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