Secret agents and the memory of everyday collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe / edited by Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth and James Mark.

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English
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  • London : Anthem Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
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viii, 366 pages ; 24 cm.

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    • Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies [More in this series]
    • Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
    Summary note
    The collection of essays in Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe addresses institutions that develop the concept of collaboration, and examines the function, social representation and history of secret police archives and institutes of national memory that create these histories of collaboration. The essays provide a comparative account of collaboration/participation across differing categories of collaborators and different social milieux throughout East-Central Europe. They also demonstrate how secret police files can be used to produce more subtle social and cultural histories of the socialist dictatorships. By interrogating the ways in which post-socialist cultures produce the idea of, and knowledge about, "collaborators," the contributing authors provide a nuanced historical conception of "collaboration," expanding the concept toward broader frameworks of cooperation and political participation to facilitate a better understanding of Eastern European communist regimes.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-349) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Collaboration, Cooperation and Political Participation in the Communist Regimes / Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth and James Mark
    • A Dissident Legacy and Its Aspects: The Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records of the Former GDR (BStU) in United Germany / Bernd Schaefer
    • Goodbye Communism, Hello Remembrance: Historical Paradigms and the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland / Barbara Klich-ltluczewska
    • The Exempt Nation: Memory of Collaboration in Contemporary Latvia / Ieva Zake
    • Institutes of Memory in Slovakia and the Czech Republic: What Kind of Memory? / Martin Kovanic
    • Closing the Past-Opening the Future: Victims and Perpetrators of the Communist Regime in Hungary / Péter Apor and Sándor Horváth
    • To Collaborate and to Punish: Democracy and Transitional Justice in Romania / Florin Abraham
    • "Resistance through Culture" or "Connivance through Culture": Difficulties of Interpretation; Nuances, Errors and Manipulations / Gabriel Andreescu
    • Intellectuals between Collaboration and Independence in Late Socialism: Politics and Everyday Life at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague / Matěj Spurný, Jakub Jareš and Katka Volná
    • Deal with the Devil: Intellectuals and Their Support of Tito's Rule in Yugoslavia (1945-80) / Josip Mihaljević
    • A Spy in Underground: Polish Samizdat Stories / Pawel Sowiński
    • Entangled Stories: On the Meaning of Collaboration with the Securitate / Cristina Petrescu
    • Finding the Way Around: Regional-Level Party Activists and Collaboration Marína Zavacká
    • Wer aber ist die Partei? History and Historiography / Tamás Kende
    • Just a Simple Priest: Remembering Cooperation with the Communist State in the Catholic Church in Postcommunist Slovakia / Agáta Šústová Drelová
    • Unofficial Collaborators in the Tourism Sector (GDR and Hungary) Krisztina Sladzta
    • Conclusion / Péter Apor and Sándor Horváth.
    ISBN
    • 1783087234
    • 9781783087235
    LCCN
    2018411885
    OCLC
    991104991
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