Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe

by Augusta Dimou and Maria N. Todorova
edited by Stefan Troebst

Central European University Press, 2014
Cloth: 978-963-386-034-2 | eISBN: 978-963-386-032-8 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification HN380.7.A8R46 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.0947

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Series title page

Title page

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 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

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