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

Cover -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright 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 -- Index.

Based on an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era.

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