Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond Artwińska Anna
Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond Artwińska Anna Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime.…
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Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond Artwińska Anna
Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past.
It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism, anticommunism, and postcommunism. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on generations and gender, is conducted