{"product_id":"perceptions-of-society-in-communist-europe-regime-archives-and-popular-opinion-9781350159273","title":"Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe Regime Archives and Popular Opinion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuriel Blaive\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eClashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figure List of Contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eMuriel Blaive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: From Postwar to Stalinism\u003c\/b\u003e   1. Secret Agents: Reassessing the Agency of Radio Listeners in Cold War Czechoslovakia (1945-1953), \u003ci\u003eRosamund Johnston (New York University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e 2. Practices of Distance, Perceptions of Proximity: Trade Union Delegates and Everyday Politics in Post-World War II Romania, \u003ci\u003eAdrian Grama (Central European University, Hungary)\u003c\/i\u003e  3. A Case Study of Legitimization Practices: The Czechoslovak Stalinist Elites at the Regional Level (1948-1951), \u003ci\u003eMarián Lóži\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Policing the Police: The ‘Instructor Group’ and the Stalinisation of the Czechoslovak Secret Police (1948-1951), \u003ci\u003eMolly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: From Stalinism to Real Existing Socialism\u003c\/b\u003e   5. Constructive Complaints and Socialist Subversion in Stalinist Czechoslovakia: E.F. Burian’s \u003ci\u003eScandal in the Picture Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShawn Clybor (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDwight-Englewood School, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Perceptions of Society in Czechoslovak Secret Police Archives: How a ‘Czechoslovak 1956’ Was Thwarted, \u003ci\u003eMuriel Blaive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Crises and the Creation of Institutions for Assessing Popular Consumption Preferences in Communist Bulgaria, 1953-1970, \u003ci\u003eMartin K. Dimitrov (Tulane University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Who is Afraid of Whom? The Case of the ‘Loyal Dissidents’ in the German Democratic Republic, \u003ci\u003eSonia Combe (Centre Marc Bloch, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGermany)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III: From Real Existing Socialism to the End - and Beyond\u003c\/b\u003e   9. Did Communist Children’s Television Communicate Universal Values? Representing Borders in the Polish Series \u003ci\u003eFour Tank-Men and a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMachteld Venken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (Vienna University, Austria)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Between Censorship and Scholarship: The Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1969-89, \u003ci\u003eLibora Oates-Indruchová (Graz University, Austria) \u003c\/i\u003e 11. ‘How Many Days Have the Comrades’ Wives Spent in a Queue?' Appealing to the Ceausescus in Late-Socialist Romania, \u003ci\u003eJill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Authenticating the Past: Archives, Secret Police, and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism, \u003ci\u003eVeronika Pehe (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstitute for Contemporary History, Czech Republic) \u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084831519063,"sku":"9781350159273","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350159273.jpg?v=1762207296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perceptions-of-society-in-communist-europe-regime-archives-and-popular-opinion-9781350159273","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}