Aleksandra Konarzewska is a literary scholar and a historian of ideas of Eastern and Central Europe. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen (Germany). Una Blagojević is an intellectual historian interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe. She earned her PhD at the Department of Historical Studies, Central European University. Currently, she is a research assistant at the Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania).Natalia Borisova is a literary scholar with special interests in ninetieth- and twentieth-century literature (Leo Tolstoy, Russian realism, history of feelings, literature and economy). She teaches at Slavic Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen (Germany).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Socialist Europe between 1956 and 1968 and Its Intellectual ProductionAleksandra Konarzewska and Una BlagojevićPart 1 Literature and Literary TheoryYevgenia Ginzburg/Vasily Aksyonov: The Invention of the Recent PastNatalia BorisovaAfter Totality: Theory of the Novel and Social Thought in Poland between 1956 and 1968Jens HerlthSocialism with a Human Face but without Socialist Literature: Josef Škvorecký’s The Miracle GameIvana PericaPart 2 Clashes and DiscussionsAn Attempt to Reform Communism: The Relations between the Yugoslav and Italian Communists in 1956 and 1968Bogdan ŽivkovićBetween Revolution and Petrification: Władysław Bieńkowski’s Prospects for Socialism in Poland 1956–1968Bartłomiej KapicaAdam Schaff and the Polish Debates on the Concept of Socialist HumanismBartosz Matyja and Monika WoźniakPart 3 Ideological LandscapesThe Ecological Imaginary of Socialist CyberneticsClemens GüntherThe Crisis of Ideas: Ideological Voids and Humanist Intuitions in Mid-Socialist PolandNina SeilerIndex of NamesIndex of Terms