1st Edition
Making Sense of Dictatorship Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which... Read more
List of Figures, List of Acronyms, Foreword, Editors’ Note, PART ONE: SINNWELT AND EIGEN-SINN, PART TWO: AUTHORITIES AND DOMINATION, PART THREE: EVERYDAY SOCIAL PRACTICES AND SINNWELT, PART FOUR: INTELLECTUAL AND EXPERT WORLDS AND (DE-)LEGITIMIZATION, Contributors, Translators, Index
Biography
Martin Sabrow was from 2004 to 2021 Director of the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam and Professor of Recent and Contemporary History at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Ana Kladnik is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.
Dr Celia Donert is University Lecturer in 20th Century Central European History, since c. 1900 at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
