THE COURSE OF LECTURES

4 October 2023
1) Introduction — Cold War experience through the lens of cultural and oral history
- Alistair Thompson, „Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History,“ The Oral History Review 34/1 (2006): 49–70.

18 October 2023
2) USSR — The Gulag: survival and exile
- Gheith, Gulag Voices, Chapter 8 - Enumerated Units, p. 133–150.

25 October 2023
3) USSR — The cynical generation: Brezhnev years and détente
- Raleigh, Soviet Baby Boomers, Introduction, p. 3-15, Chapter 3 — Unconscious agents of change - Soviet Childhood Creates the Cynical Generation, p. 120–168.

1 November 2023
4) USSR — „How thirty people can share an apartment?“ - everyday communal living
- Messana, Soviet Communal Living, Introduction, p. 1–5. Chapters 1, 10, 14, 23, 25.-
- Steven E. Harris, "I know all the Secrets of my Neighbors: The Quest for Privacy in the Era of the Separate Apartment,", in Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Borders of Socialism. Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, p. 171–190.

8 November 2023
5) USSR — Notebooks of Evgeniia Kiseleva
- Irina Paperno, "The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: The War Separated Us Forever", in Irina Paperno, Stories of the Soviet Experience - Memories, Diaries, Dreams (Cornell UP: Ithaca and London, 2009): II/2, p. 118–158.

15 November 2023
6) Uchronic dreams — the post-WWII experience of communist militants in Italy
- Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli, chapter 6, "Uchronic Dreams: Working-Class Memory and Possible Worlds."

22 November 2023
7) China — one girl's experience of the Cultural Revolution
- Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong, Growing Up in The People’s Republic, Foreword, Chronology of major events, Introduction, Chapters 3, 4, and 5.

29 November 2023
8) Czechoslovakia I — the short-lived dream of the Prague Spring of 1968 and its aftermath
- Zounek et al. “You have betrayed us for a little dirty money!” The Prague Spring as seen by primary school teachers

6 December 2023
9) Czechoslovakia II — The birth of the Czechoslovak "normalization"
- Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, edd., Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation 1969–1989 (Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2022)
- Chapter 2 (Building the Normalisation Panorama 1968–1969), Chapter 3 (The Ideological Face of Normalisation: Socialist Modernity and the 'Quiet Life').

13 December 2023
10) Czechoslovakia III — Social control during Czechoslovak "normalization"
- Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, edd., Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe in the Era of Normalisation 1969–1989 (Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, 2022)
- Chapter 6 (Czechoslovak Security Service During Normalisation: The Appearance of Success), Chapter 9 (Shaping 'Real Socialism': The Normalised Conception of Culture).

20 December 2023
11) Czechoslovakia IV — an oral history of everyday life during "normalization"
- Miroslav Vaněk, Pavel Mücke, Velvet Revolutions. An Oral History of Czech Society (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2016).
Introduction, and Chapters 2 (Transforming the Family in Socialism) and 6 (The Meaning of Free Time: Work, Family, and Leisure).

3 January 2024
12) Written semestral test — first term
More terms for the written semestral test will be provided during January and February