Abstract This text focuses on qualitative research of the past when it comes to communist regimes in Europe, particularly Slovakia (as part former Czechoslovakia). The authors introduce ongoing project Current Images Socialism as well its methodological and theoretical frames. They present findings challenges, also articulated during international conference Memory Communist Past (2020) selecte...

This quotation is taken from a book presented to young East Germans at the socialist coming-of-age ritual Jugendweihe [youth consecration]. They are only a few sentences out of an entire chapter, which deals with the so called ‘socialist personality’ [sozialistische Persönlichkeit]. The ritual Jugendweihe, which was attended by over ninety per cent of the East German fourteen-year-olds (Urban a...

Amidst a larger surge in the number of books and periodicals published in late-nineteenth-century Britain, a corresponding surge occurred in the radical press. The counter-cultural press that emerged at the fin de siècle sought to define itself in opposition to commercial print and the capitalist press and was deeply antagonistic to existing political, economic, and print publishing structures....

T he fi rst kibbutz, called Degania, was established southwest of the Sea of Galilee in 1910, but the vast majority of kibbutzim were established in the 1930s and 1940s, shortly before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The stereotypical view emphasizes that the founders of kibbutzim were often socialist idealist Jews from Eastern Europe. They migrated to the area of the Middle East t...

The years between Hungary’s occupation by the Red Army that concluded its traumatic involvement in the Second World War and the construction of socialist dictatorship in the country at the end of the 1940s constitute a moment of transition, a moment that is central to understanding the subsequent development of the country. For this reason the interpretation of this moment of transition has bee...