Remembering Communism : Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe /
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 a...
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New York :
Central European University Press,
[2022]
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories
- PART I. THE STATE OF THE ART OF EASTERN EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE
- 2. Experts with a Cause: A Future for GDR History beyond Memory Governance and Ostalgie in Unified Germany
- 3. The Canon of Remembering Romanian Communism: From Autobiographical Recollections to Collective Representations
- 4. How Is Communism Remembered in Bulgaria? Research, Literature, Projects
- 5. The Memory of Communism in Poland
- 6. Remembering Dictatorship: Eastern and Southern Europe Compared
- PART II. THINKING THROUGH THINGS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EVERYDAY
- 7. Communism Reloaded
- 8. Daily Life and Constraints in Communist Romania in the Late 1980s: From the Semiotics of Food to the Semiotics of Power
- 9. "Forbidden Images?" Visual Memories of Romanian Communism Before and After 1989
- 10. Remembering the Private Display of Decorative Things under Communism
- PART III. MEMORIES OF SOCIALIST CHILDHOOD
- 11. "Loan Memory": Communism and the Youngest Generation
- 12. Talking Memories of the Socialist Age: School, Childhood, Regime
- 13. Within (and Without) the "Stem Cell" of Socialist Society
- PART IV. WHAT WAS SOCIALIST LABOR?
- 14. Remembering Communism: Field Studies in Pernik, 1960-1964
- 15. "Remembering the Old City, Building a New One": The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City
- 16. Workers in the Workers' State: Industrialization, Labor, and Everyday Life in the Industrial City of Rovinari
- 17. "We Build for Our Country!" Visual Memories about the Brigadier Movement
- PART V. THE UNFADING PROBLEM OF THE SECRET POLICE
- 18. How Post-1989 Bulgarian Society Perceives the Role of the State Security Service
- 19. The Afterlife of the Securitate: On Moral Correctness in Postcommunist Romania
- 20. Daily Life and Surveillance in the 1970s and 1980s
- PART VI. THE "CULTURAL FRONT" THEN AND NOW
- 21. From Memory to Canon: How Do Bulgarian Historians Remember Communism?
- 22. Theater Artists and the Bulgarian Authorities in the 1960s: Memories of Conflicts, Conflict of Memories
- 23. Bulgarian Intellectuals Remember Communist Culture
- 24. "By Their Memoirs You Shall Know Them": Ivan and Petko Venedikov about Themselves and about Communism
- 25. Cum Ira et Studio: Visualizing the Recent Past
- PART VII. REMEMBERING EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS AND THE "SYSTEM"
- 26. The Revolution of 1989 and the Rashomon Effect: Recollections of the Collapse of Communism in Romania
- 27. Remembrance of Communism on the Former Day of Socialist Victory: The 9th of September in the Ritual Ceremonies of Post-1989 Bulgaria
- 28. Remembering the "Revival Process" in Post-1989 Bulgaria
- 29. Websites of Memory: In Search of the Forgotten Past
- List of Contributors
- Index