Remembering Communism

Maria N. Todorova is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Augusta Dimou is Gerda Henkel Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies, Chair of Comparative European History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. She is a historian specializing in contemporary comparative European History with a regional focus on Southeast and East-Central Europe. She is currently completing her habilitation on the development of intellectual property rights and cultural politics in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.Stefan Troebst is Historian and Slavist. He is Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University.

• List of figures, Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Similar Trajectories, Different Memories, PART I. THE STATE OF THE ART OF EASTERN EUROPEAN REMEMBRANCE, PART II. THINKING THROUGH THINGS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EVERYDAY, PART III. MEMORIES OF SOCIALIST CHILDHOOD, PART IV. WHAT WAS SOCIALIST LABOR?, PART V. THE UNFADING PROBLEM OF THE SECRET POLICE, PART VI. THE “CULTURAL FRONT” THEN AND NOW, PART VII. REMEMBERING EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS AND THE “SYSTEM”, List of Contributors, Index

"A powerful reminder of the continuing relevance of the Communist past and the complicated nature of its negotiation in public and private processes of remembering. Remembering Communism succeeds in drawing attention to the need to investigate areas of overlap between the two, especially since the memory of Communism continues to be highly politicized. Even more so, the volume draws attention to some of the most important loose ends in post-Communist studies: class memories, transmission of memory and historical knowledge, generationality and the impact of new media on the production and consumption of memories"