Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe

Muriel Blaive is Advisor to the Director for Research and Methodology at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic. She is the editor, together with Christian Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger, of Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust (2010).

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Introduction, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)

Part I: From Postwar to Stalinism

1. Secret Agents: Reassessing the Agency of Radio Listeners in Cold War Czechoslovakia (1945-1953), Rosamund Johnston (New York University, USA)
2. Practices of Distance, Perceptions of Proximity: Trade Union Delegates and Everyday Politics in Post-World War II Romania, Adrian Grama (Central European University, Hungary)
3. A Case Study of Legitimization Practices: The Czechoslovak Stalinist Elites at the Regional Level (1948-1951), Marián Lóži (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)
4. Policing the Police: The ‘Instructor Group’ and the Stalinisation of the Czechoslovak Secret Police (1948-1951), Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Part II: From Stalinism to Real Existing Socialism

5. Constructive Complaints and Socialist Subversion in Stalinist Czechoslovakia: E.F. Burian’s Scandal in the Picture Gallery, Shawn Clybor (Dwight-Englewood School, USA)
6. Perceptions of Society in Czechoslovak Secret Police Archives: How a ‘Czechoslovak 1956’ Was Thwarted, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)
7. Crises and the Creation of Institutions for Assessing Popular Consumption Preferences in Communist Bulgaria, 1953-1970, Martin K. Dimitrov (Tulane University, USA)
8. Who is Afraid of Whom? The Case of the ‘Loyal Dissidents’ in the German Democratic Republic, Sonia Combe (Centre Marc Bloch, Germany)

Part III: From Real Existing Socialism to the End - and Beyond

9. Did Communist Children’s Television Communicate Universal Values? Representing Borders in the Polish Series Four Tank-Men and a Dog, Machteld Venken (Vienna University, Austria)
10. Between Censorship and Scholarship: The Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1969-89, Libora Oates-Indruchová (Graz University, Austria)
11. ‘How Many Days Have the Comrades’ Wives Spent in a Queue?' Appealing to the Ceausescus in Late-Socialist Romania, Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
12. Authenticating the Past: Archives, Secret Police, and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism, Veronika Pehe (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Republic)

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