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Part I Institutes of Memory
Chapter 1 A Dissident Legacy and its Aspects: The Agency of the Federal Commissioner for The Stasi Records ...
A Special Postcommunist German Feature: Stasi Files and BStU
Lustrations and Collaboration
Chapter 2 Goodbye Communism, Hello Remembrance: Historical Paradigms and The Institute of National Remembrance in Poland
Super-archives and dangerous folders
Prosecution and punishment
Memory, Historical Politics and the Totalitarian Paradigm
2010, a Landmark Year: Toward Pluralism
The breakup of the narrative
The Radical (Re)turn to Commemoration
Chapter 3 The Exempt Nation: Memory of Collaboration in Contemporary Latvia
Elements of Collective Memory of Collaborationism
The Conception of the “Exempt Latvian Nation”
Chapter 4 Institutes of Memory in Slovakia and The Czech Republic: What Kind of Memory?
Collective Memory and Anticommunism
Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The Nation’s Memory Institute (NMI)
The Need to Address the Past
The Delegitimization of the Regimes of the Past
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ISTR)
The Delegitimization of the Regimes of the Past
Chapter 5 Closing The Past—Opening The Future: Victims and Perpetrators of The Communist Regime in Hungary
Prolonged File-Fever after 1989
Museums and Collaboration with the Communist Regimes
Chapter 6 To Collaborate and to Punish: Democracy and Transitional Justice in Romania
“Transitional Justice” in Romania: Stakes, Obstacles, Solutions
CNSAS and the Unveiling of Political Police
Public Opinion Concerning the “Pact with the Devil”
Types of Collaboration and Unveiling
Chapter 7 “Resistance Through Culture” or “Connivance Through Culture”: Difficulties of Interpretation; Nuances ...
“Resistance through Culture”
The True Constantin Noica in the Securitate Archive
Constantin Noica as agent of influence: “Supporting culture” by converting the exile
“Cultural reconversion” through political deactivation
The myth of the “resistance through culture”—the Paltinis type
The other facet of the story: The Stockholm Syndrome
The Manipulation of the Secret Police Archives
Chapter 8 Intellectuals Between Collaboration and Independence in Late Socialism: Politics and Everyday Life ...
The Stories of Two Historians
Solidarity, Party Loyalty and Stiff Competition among Colleagues
The State Security Forces: An Unequal Struggle between the Individual and the State Machinery
Conclusion: Individual Strategies, Competing Loyalties and the Legitimacy of the System
Chapter 9 Deal With The Devil: Intellectuals and Their Support of Tito’s Rule in Yugoslavia (1945–80)
Tito’s Attitudes toward “Unreliable Waverers”
Intellectuals on “the Greatest Son of Our Peoples and Nationalities”
Conclusion: Betrayal of the Intellectuals?
Chapter 10 A Spy in Underground: Polish Samizdat Stories
Recruiting to Social Media
Surviving the First Years
“External Intervention”: Janusz’s Second Life
“Tactical Diversity”: Polish Resistance Culture
Between Individual and Collective Agency
Chapter 11 Entangled Stories: on The Meaning of Collaboration with The Securitate
Before 1989: The Stories of Dissent in the Files of Radio Free Europe
After 1989: The stories of dissent in the files of the Securitate
Part III Collaborating Communities
Chapter 12 Finding the way Around: Regional-Level Party Activists and Collaboration
The Troubles of Local Party Cadres
Struggle against Religion
Party Life in Local Organizations
Chapter 13 Wer Aber ist Die Partei? History and Historiography
“The Highest Extent of Organization,” or Data on the Question of Party Membership
Levels of Political Communication
Participants in the Communication: The Village-Goers
Participants in the Communication: Local Peasantry
Participants in the Communication: Party Leadership
Party Life and Attitudes toward “Partisanship” Following the “Great Turn”
Chapter 14 Just A Simple Priest: Remembering Cooperation with the Communist State in the Catholic Church ...
The Personal and the Collective in Catholic Memory
Catholic Public Memory after 1989
Oral History: Stories of Resistance
Stories of “Faithful Priests”
Chapter 15 Unofficial Collaborators in the Tourism Sector (GDR and Hungary)
Tourism Control by Hungarian State Security
Cooperation with State Security as a Possible Livelihood Strategy
Stasi Control of East German Tourists in Hungary
A Full-Time Informer of the Stasi at Lake Balaton
Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
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