List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. 1. Introduction: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories 1
6. PART I. THE STATE OF THE ART OF EASTERN EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE
7. 2. Experts with a Cause: A Future for GDR History beyond Memory Governance and Ostalgie in Unified Germany 27
8. 3. The Canon of Remembering Romanian Communism: From Autobiographical Recollections to Collective Representations 43
9. 4. How Is Communism Remembered in Bulgaria? Research, Literature, Projects 71
10. 5. The Memory of Communism in Poland 97
11. 6. Remembering Dictatorship: Eastern and Southern Europe Compared 119
12. PART II. THINKING THROUGH THINGS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EVERYDAY
13. 7. Communism Reloaded 153
14. 8. Daily Life and Constraints in Communist Romania in the Late 1980s: From the Semiotics of Food to the Semiotics of Power 175
15. 9. “Forbidden Images?” Visual Memories of Romanian Communism Before and After 1989 201
16. 10. Remembering the Private Display of Decorative Things under Communism 217
17. PART III. MEMORIES OF SOCIALIST CHILDHOOD
18. 11. “Loan Memory”: Communism and the Youngest Generation 231
19. 12. Talking Memories of the Socialist Age: School, Childhood, Regime 251
20. 13. Within (and Without) the “Stem Cell” of Socialist Society 267
21. PART IV. WHAT WAS SOCIALIST LABOR?
22. 14. Remembering Communism: Field Studies in Pernik, 1960–1964 283
23. 15. “Remembering the Old City, Building a New One”: The Plural Memories of a Multiethnic City 307
24. 16. Workers in the Workers’ State: Industrialization, Labor, and Everyday Life in the Industrial City of Rovinari 325
25. 17. “We Build for Our Country!” Visual Memories about the Brigadier Movement 343
26. PART V. THE UNFADING PROBLEM OF THE SECRET POLICE
27. 18. How Post-1989 Bulgarian Society Perceives the Role of the State Security Service 365
28. 19. The Afterlife of the Securitate: On Moral Correctness in Postcommunist Romania 385
29. 20. Daily Life and Surveillance in the 1970s and 1980s 417
30. PART VI. THE “CULTURAL FRONT” THEN AND NOW
31. 21. From Memory to Canon: How Do Bulgarian Historians Remember Communism? 437
32. 22. Theater Artists and the Bulgarian Authorities in the 1960s: Memories of Conflicts, Conflict of Memories 459
33. 23. Bulgarian Intellectuals Remember Communist Culture 477
34. 24. “By Their Memoirs You Shall Know Them”: Ivan and Petko Venedikov about Themselves and about Communism 495
35. 25. Cum Ira et Studio: Visualizing the Recent Past 513
36. PART VII. REMEMBERING EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS AND THE “SYSTEM”
37. 26. The Revolution of 1989 and the Rashomon Effect: Recollections of the Collapse of Communism in Romania 531
38. 27. Remembrance of Communism on the Former Day of Socialist Victory: The 9th of September in the Ritual Ceremonies of Post-1989 Bulgaria 549
39. 28. Remembering the “Revival Process” in Post-1989 Bulgaria 567
40. 29. Websites of Memory: In Search of the Forgotten Past 595
41. List of Contributors 615
42. Index 617