Making sense of dictatorship: domination and everyday life in East Central Europe after 1945

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Foreword -- Editors' Note -- PART ONE: SINNWELT AND EIGEN-SINN -- Socialism as Sinnwelt: Communist Dictatorship and its World of Meaning in a Cultural-Historical Perspective -- Neither Consent nor Opposition: Eigen-Sinn, or How to Make Sense of Compliance and Self-Assertion under Communist Domination -- PART TWO: AUTHORITIES AND DOMINATION -- Policeman Nicolae: The Story of One Man's Life and Work in the Socialist Republic of Romania (1960-89). -- The East German Reporting System: Normality and Legitimacy Through Bureaucracy -- Late Communist Elites and the Demise of State Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1986-89) -- PART THREE: EVERYDAY SOCIAL PRACTICES AND SINNWELT -- Local Self-Governance, Voluntary Practices, and the Sinnwelt of Socialist Velenje -- 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 -- Single Mothers, Lonely Children: Polish Families, Socialist Modernity, and the Experience of Crisis of the Late 1970s and 1980s -- "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 -- Problems with Progress in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia: The Example of Most, North Bohemia -- Authentic Community and Autonomous Individual: Making Sense of Socialism in Late Socialist Hungary -- The "Will to Publicity" and its Publicists: Curating the Memory of Czechoslovak Samizdat -- Dissident Legalism: Human Rights, Socialist Legality, and the Birth of Legal Resistance in the 1970s Democratic Opposition in Czechoslovakia and Poland -- Contributors -- Translators. -- Index. -- Back cover.