Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe Regime Archives and Popular Opinion

Secret agents : reassessing the agency of radio listeners in Cold War Czechoslovakia (1945-1953) / Rosamund Johnston -- Practices of distance, perceptions of proximity : trade union delegates and everyday politics in post-World War II Romania / Adrian Grama -- A case study of legitimization practices : the Czechoslovak Stalinist elites at the regional level (1948-1951) / Marián Lóži -- Policing the police : the "instructor group" and the Stalinization of the Czechoslovak secret police (1948-1951) / Molly Pucci -- Constructive complaints and socialist subversion in Stalinist Czechoslovakia : E.F. Burian's Scandal in the picture gallery / Shawn Clybor -- Perceptions of society in Czechoslovak secret police archives : how a "Czechoslovak 1956" was thwarted / Muriel Blaive -- Crises and the creation of institutions for assessing popular consumption preferences in communist Bulgaria, 1953-1970 / Martin K. Dimitrov -- Who is afraid of whom? The case of the "loyal dissidents" in the German Democratic Republic / Sonia Combe -- Did communist children's television communicate universal values? Representing borders in the Polish series Four Tank-men and a Dog / Machteld Venken -- Between censorship and scholarship : the editorial board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1969-89 / Libora Oates-Indruchová -- "How many days have the comrades' wives spent in a queue?" Appealing to the Ceaușescus in late socialist Romania / Jill Massino -- Authenticating the past : archives, secret police, and heroism in contemporary Czech representations of socialism / Veronika Pehe