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""Easy to read...valuable...well organized...interesting""--Utopian Studies. Communism and the Cold War were the big newsmakers in the fifties and sixties, and had definite and significant impacts on all levels of American popular culture. This work examines representations of anti-Communism sentiment in American popular culture from the early fifties through the mid-sixties by looking at the television programs, films, novels, journalism, maps, memoirs, and other works that presented anti-communism ideology to millions of Americans

"The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept and examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and how they sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe"--

"The thirteen authors of this collective work undertook to articulate matter-of-fact critiques of the dominant narrative about communism in Poland while offering new analyses of the concept and examining the manifestations of anticommunism. Approaching communist ideas and practices, programs and their implementations, as an inseparable whole, they examine the issues of emancipation, upward social mobility, and changes in the cultural canon. The authors refuse to treat communism in Poland in simplistic categories of totalitarianism, absolute evil and Soviet colonization, and similarly refuse to equate communism and fascism. Nor do they adopt the neoliberal view of communism as a project doomed to failure. While wholly exempt from nostalgia, these essays show that beyond oppression and bad governance, communism was also a regime in which people pursued a variety of goals and how they sincerely attempted to build a better world for themselves. The book is interdisciplinary and applies the tools of social history, intellectual history, political philosophy, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies to provide a nuanced view of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe"--

Since the forced resignation of Todor Zhivkov in November of 1989, Bulgaria's transition to democracy has been marked by good beginnings ending in frustration or disappointment. It has avoided the violent ethnic confrontations that have characterized much of the "post-Communist" Balkans, but has also seen the development of an influential criminal

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNIST AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, 1944-1956: ADMINISTRATIVE IDENTIFICATION AND NARRATIVE IDENTITY -- Communist autobiographies: Origins -- The Italian way to autobiographical control: Elements of context -- The communist autobiography: Plot and story -- 2 EMINIST SELF-ENUNCIATION: BETWEEN SILENCE AND INFINITE SPEECH -- The paradox of emancipation and its autobiographical strategies -- Paranoia: The infinite discourse -- Schizophrenia and catatonia: Poetry, dreams and discursive hesitations -- 3 THE REMAINS OF TWO TRADITIONS: INSTITUTIONAL MONUMENTS AND IMPOSSIBLE MOURNING -- After the end: The collapse of communism and the self-narrative -- Late feminist autobiographies: The journey towards legitimacy and normality -- Echoes of the origins: The autobiographies of Giorgio Napolitano and Laura Lepetit -- Giorgio Napolitano: The man who made himself an institution -- Laura Lepetit: Feminism as distraction -- CONCLUSIONS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint.

Introduction: Ethnography of transnational migrants at home -- 1. The cultural production of "transnational locals" in theory and (of) practice -- 2. Ethnicity and migration after communism -- 3. History and the politics of representation : Greek ethnicity in southern Russia -- 4. Making sense of home and homeland : motivations and strategies for a transnational migrant circuit -- 5. Transnationalisation, materialisation, and commoditisation of ethnicity -- 6. The transnational family : re-shaping kinship and genealogy -- 7. A place called "home" : property ownership, legitimacy and local identification of migrants in home communities -- 8. Becoming Pontic Greeks -- 9. The Pontic Greek cultural revival : a global network and local concerns -- Conclusion: Local lives of transnational migrants.