Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical
longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However …

The first political theory of post-Communism examines its implications for understanding
liberty, rights, transitional justice, property rights, privatization, rule of law, centrally planned …

Narratives of wartime suffering, communist evils, and maltreatment by the 'West'have started
featuring prominently in the political discourse across eastern Europe in the past decade …

This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has
shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed …

This book considers the issue of free speech in transitional democracies focusing on the
socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. In showing how …

In this review, I survey the empirical research literature on collective memory work in post‐
1989 Central‐East Europe. Among the central cultural changes that the transformative …

The memory of communism remains a defining attribute of post-communist societies. Since
the fall of the Berlin Wall, attitude towards the non-democratic past have been feed into the …

This chapter contains an analysis of two similar attempts to institutionalise 'national
memory'in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the fall of Communism and dissolution of …

This paper proposes a new definition of the term 'subculture', as a way of better
understanding hybrid identities specific to E ast‐C entral E urope, before applying this …

Plus qu'une période historique bien définie (des années 1936 aux années 1950), la Grande
Noirceur représente une époque repoussoir. Elle est un mythe constitutif du grand récit …