1st Edition
Remembering Communism Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe
640 Pages
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Central European University Press
Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology,... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories, PART I. THE STATE OF THE ART OF EASTERN EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE, PART II. THINKING THROUGH THINGS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EVERYDAY, PART III. MEMORIES OF SOCIALIST CHILDHOOD, PART IV. WHAT WAS SOCIALIST LABOR?, PART V. THE UNFADING PROBLEM OF THE SECRET POLICE, PART VI. THE “CULTURAL FRONT” THEN AND NOW, PART VII. REMEMBERING EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS AND THE “SYSTEM”, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Maria N. Todorova is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.
Stefan Troebst is Historian and Slavist. He is Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University.
