New Perspectives in Transnational History of Communism in East Central Europe

The book offers a transnational perspective in research on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the communist systems and focuses on different aspects of lives in different countries (consumerism, economical management), forms of resistance, and ways of its remembering.

The book offers a transnational perspective on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communist systems and focuses on different forms of resistance and ways of its remembering. The transnational look is manifested through an analysis of the usefulness of the models applied in research of the past, an investigation of some historical phenomena in the context of mutual relations between particular countries (e.g. Poland and East Germany), republics of Soviet Union (Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia) and between the East and the West relations (peace movement in Poland and Netherlands). Moreover, selected aspects of the past (consumerism in Bulgaria or economic management in Romania) are analyzed with the use of categories useful in transnational research.

Autorentext

Krzysztof Brzechczyn is employed at the Institute of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the Institute of National Remembrance. He has authored several books and papers in different languages. His fields of interests are current history, intellectual history, philosophy of history, social philosophy, and theory of historiography.

Inhalt

Communism - Modernization - Enslavement - Class division - State terror - Ideocracy - Totalitarianism - Memory - Socialist economy - Real socialism - New class - New left - Peace movement