Making Sense of Dictatorship : : Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe after 1945 / / ed. by Martin Sabrow, Ana Kladnik, Celia Donert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Apor, Péter,; Cirniala, Ciprian,; Donert, Celia,; Gagyiova, Annina,; Kladnik, Ana,; Klich-Kluczewska, Barbara,; Kolář, Pavel,; Kopeček, Michal,; Larson, Jonathan,; Lindenberger, Thomas,; Pullmann, Michal,; Richter, Hedwig,; Sabrow, Martin,; Spurný, Matěj,
• HerausgeberIn: Donert, Celia,; Kladnik, Ana,; Sabrow, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Figures
• Acronyms
• Foreword
• Editors’ Note
• Part One: Sinnwelt And Eigen-Sinn
• 1. Socialism as Sinnwelt: Communist Dictatorship and its World of Meaning in a Cultural-Historical Perspective
• 2. Neither Consent nor Opposition: Eigen-Sinn, or How to Make Sense of Compliance and Self-Assertion under Communist Domination
• Part Two: Authorities And Domination
• 3. Policeman Nicolae: The Story of One Man’s Life and Work in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1960–89)
• 4. The East German Reporting System: Normality and Legitimacy Through Bureaucracy
• 5. Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986–89)
• Part Three: Everyday Social Practices And Sinnwelt
• 6. Local Self-Governance, Voluntary Practices, and the Sinnwelt of Socialist Velenje
• 7. Modern Housekeeping Worlds; or, How Much is Thirty Percent Really? Eigensinnige Consumer Practices and the Hungarian Trade Union’s “Washing Machine Campaign” of 1957–58
• 8. Single Mothers, Lonely Children: Polish Families, Socialist Modernity, and the Experience of Crisis of the Late 1970s and 1980s
• 9. “Since Makarenko the Time for Experiments has Passed”: Peace, Gender, and Human Rights in East Berlin during the 1980s
• Part Four: Intellectual And Expert Worlds And (De-)Legitimization
• 10. Problems with Progress in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: The Example of Most, North Bohemia
• 11. Authentic Community and Autonomous Individual: Making Sense of Socialism in Late Socialist Hungary
• 12. The “Will to Publicity” and its Publicists: Curating the Memory of Czechoslovak Samizdat
• 13. Dissident Legalism: Human Rights, Socialist Legality, and the Birth of Legal Resistance in the 1970s Democratic Opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland
• Contributors
• Translators
• Index