Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Acronyms vii
4. Introduction Communism Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: A New Approach 1
5. Part One. Critiques of the Dominant Narrative
6. CHAPTER ONE The Red and the Brown: On the Nationalist Legitimation of Communism in Poland Once Again 15
7. CHAPTER TWO Communist (Auto)biographies: Teresa Torańska’s Them: Stalin’s Polish Puppets and the Contemporary Paradigms of Understanding the Past 53
8. Part Two. New Analyses of Communism
9. CHAPTER THREE Legitimation of Communism: To Build and to Demolish 79
10. CHAPTER FOUR Eroticism and Power 115
11. CHAPTER FIVE “’Cause a Girl Is People”: Projects and Policies of Women’s Emancipation in Postwar Poland 141
12. CHAPTER SIX An Adventure in the Steelworks and in Mariensztat: Family and Emancipation of Women in 1950s Polish Cinema 177
13. CHAPTER SEVEN The “Adolescent Sphinx”: (Post-)Thaw Novels for Girls 195
14. CHAPTER EIGHT “Here I Stand, I Cannot Do Otherwise”: Around An Open Letter to the Party and the Notion of Revisionism in Discourse About the Political Opposition in 1960s Poland 227
15. CHAPTER NINE Socialist Education Ideals and Models of Patriotism: Some of the Problems of Polish Pedagogics and the Education Policy of the People’s Republic of Poland in the 1970s 273
16. Part Three. New Analyses of Anti-Communism
17. CHAPTER TEN The Waning of Communism in the People’s Republic of Poland: The Case of Discourse on Intelligentsia 311
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN The Thought of Stanisław Brzozowski in Polish Academic Writing and Journalism in the Years 1945–1974: Currents, Parallels, Polemics 343
19. CHAPTER TWELVE Around Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Miazga, Kazimierz Brandys’ Nierzeczywisto√ć, and Polish Leftist Thought of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 369
20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Scheming as a Business: “Communism” in the Language of the 1980s Opposition; The Example of The Little Conspirator 401
21. List of contributors 419
22. Index 421