Remembering Communism
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Remembering Communism

Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe

  1. 640 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Remembering Communism

Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe

About this book

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, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past.

The volume deals with eight major thematic blocks revisiting specific practices in communism such as popular culture and everyday life, childhood, labor, the secret police, and the perception of "the system".

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Table of contents

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