Remembering Communism

Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-963-386-034-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1115 g

Reihe: Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe - CEU 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, 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”.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Todorova, Maria

Dimou, Augusta

Troebst, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.