Living with the world heritage. An ethnographic study of the ancient city of Nessebar, Bulgaria by Luleva Ana

“…The pressure of the tourism industry on the value, which was visible even in the years of the late state socialism, became irresistible after 1989 in the context of the liberalised market economy, the interests of the private investors and the accepted as part of the "normal" market order corrupt practices of the institutions that are responsible for the safeguarding and management of the cultural heritage. …”
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The Specificity of Architecture: Architectural Debates and Critical Theory in Hungary, 1945–1989 by Ákos Moravánszky

“…However, the authoritarian state-socialism of Hungary permitted only apologetic theorizations, using the Marxist critique of capitalist society and culture to justify its own form of domination. …”
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Demon of Controversy. Author and his Work – Accord or Discord? by Pavel Matejovič

“…These were influenced by several factors, primarily motivated by the political and social changes that took place after the fall of state socialism. The article tackles the issue of social determination of authorial controversy through the theories of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu (authorial genealogy, the notion of the literary field). …”
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“Who Will Take Better Care of Him Than Me?!” Perpetuating Institutional Culture in Families of Children with Disabilities in Bulgaria by Ina Dimitrova, Galina Goncharova

“…We highlight the dynamics and interactions of the traumatic images on the legacy of state socialism, the actual barriers during the transition period, the coping strategies chosen by families and, ultimately, the grim effects with regard to the affirmation and implementation of the idea of independent living for people with disabilities in Bulgaria.…”
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The Second Sex in Hungary. Simone de Beauvoir and the (Post)-Socialist Condition by Mária Joó

“…Beauvoir’s work was translated in 1969, a period of change in state socialism: the introduction of some elements of market economy in 1968 (called New Economic Mechanism), the publication of Western bourgeois philosophers as Sartre and Beauvoir, and Marxist philosophers’ efforts to revise orthodox Marxism. ’The woman question’ was declared to be already solved by socialism. …”
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Second Culture, Good Vibrations, and Writings on the Wall: Hip-Hop in the GDR as a Case of Afro-Americanophilia by Leonard Schmieding

“…Focusing on three individuals, it details the specific characteristics of their Afro-Americanophilia and scrutinizes their roles for the hip-hop scene in state socialism. While a cultural critic interpreted hip-hop as ‘second culture,’ which, according to Marxist-Leninist ideology, was to be endorsed as international working-class culture, a radio host from East Berlin spread information and music throughout the country, equipping the teenage audience with what they needed for their own practice of hip-hop. …”
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The intergenerational social mobility of children from working-class backgrounds in Germany and Britain by Betthäuser, B

“…The second paper, titled <em>Educational inequality after state socialism: The effect of German unification revisited</em>, draws on the natural experiment of German unification to examine, first, whether state socialism in the GDR succeeded in realising its ideological commitment to increasing the educational attainment of children from working-class backgrounds, relative to children from more advantaged backgrounds. …”

Reanimating/Resisting Late Soviet Monstrosity: Generational Self-Reflection and Lessons of Responsibility in Alexei Ivanov’s Pischeblok [The Food Unit] by Ksenia Robbe

“…The article outlines the novel’s generational self-reflection which involves re-familiarizing the readers with the ideals that existed within socialism but were not realized by the generation which internalized state socialism’s monstrous side. At the same time, the return to the moment of struggling with this monstrosity creates an alternative turning point and the possibility of responsibility-taking.…”
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Gender Norms under Socialism and Capitalism: A Historical Examination of Attitudes towards Maternal Employment in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany by Leonie Kleinschrot

“…These findings complement post-reunification evidence on East-West-differences in gender norms and provide insights into attitudes under Eastern European state socialism. * This article belongs to a special issue on “Demographic Developments in Eastern and Western Europe Before and After the Transformation of Socialist Countries”.…”
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Urban restructuring in post-war contexts: the case of Sarajevo by Jordi Martín-Díaz

“…The transition from state-socialism to capitalism has not been the only process reshapingthe urban landscapes in Central and Eastern Europe but some cities were affected by war destructions, like in the Caucus region or in the former Yugoslavia. …”
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Twenty Years After Communism: The Methodological Review by Andrzej Paweł Śledź

“…The paper is a methodological review essay of Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik’s comparative study of politics of memory and commemoration in seventeen Central and Eastern European states twenty years after the fall of state socialism. The goal of the essay is to critically examine Bernhard and Kubik’s volume, with a particular focus on the comparative methods they applied to explain how some political and cultural factors at the time of the collapse of communism affected a memory regime in the post-communist democracies. …”
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Exploring Older Men’s Pathways to Childlessness in Hungary: Did the Change of Policy Regime Matter? by Ivett Szalma, Judit Takács

“…Older interviewees who grew up in state socialism followed a standardized life‐course and went through the same life‐course events—including school, work, and, in some cases, childless marriages. …”
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One Third of the Century of Postsocialist Systemic Transformation by Grzegorz W. Kołodko

“…This requires a comparative analysis of the real sphere and regulation of the reformed economy of state socialism and the emerging post‑socialist market economy. …”
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Memorial Ambivalences in Postcommunist Romania: Generational Attitudes towards the Symbolic Legacy of Communism by Mihai Stelian Rusu, Alin Croitoru

“…After the demise of state socialism, public space became an issue of contention that occupied an important place within societies’ efforts to come to terms with the recent past. …”
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A nation-state without the nation? The trajectories of nation-formation in Montenegro by Malešević, Siniša, Uzelac, Gordana

“…The authors argue that the answers to these questions are to be found in the particularities of Montenegro's historical development, and especially in the structural legacies of state socialism. The consequence of these developments was the formation of two separate Montenegrin national ideologies: one which sees Montenegrins as ethnically Serb, and the other that defines Montenegrins in civic terms. …”
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Socialism or Art: Yugoslav Mass Song and Its Institutionalizations by Srđan Atanasovski

“…Importantly, the institutions which have been disseminating the mass song under state socialism, such as various institutions of education, culture and art, have also served as mechanisms for the normalization of its ideological content. …”
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Rethinking Development: Vikalp Sangam and the search for alternatives in India by Pallav Das

“…It focuses on the process by which a fundamental and transformative systemic change could be introduced into the society for the construction of a new political-economy that moves beyond both corporate capitalism and state socialism and towards the creation of “Radical Ecological Democracy”, based on climate justice, environmental sustainability and socio-economic equality.…”
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Refugees and the “Other Hungary”: The Historiography of the Reception of Refugees in Twentieth-Century Hungary by Ágnes Katalin Kelemen

“…The country’s twentieth-century history is divided into four parts for the purposes of studying the history of refugees: World War I and its aftermath until World War II; the escape from Nazism; the period of state socialism; and the period of transition to democracy. …”
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Famous and Forgotten: Soviet Sociology and the Nature of Intellectual Achievement under Totalitarianism by Mikhail Sokolov

“…The paper introduces a distinction between natural and intentional secrecy and argues that while most of Western sociology specialized in natural secrecy, Soviet sociology had to deal with intentional secrecy resulting from conscious attempts to conceal the dismal realities of state socialism. The pervasiveness of secrecy during the Soviet era resulted from the central legitimizing myth of Soviet society describing it as built following a scientifically devised plan. …”
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Poems as monuments. Towards outlining a type of occasional lyric in post-WWII literature by Viliam Nádaskay

“…These attributes can also be identified in the Slovak poetry written after 1948 when Czechoslovakia entered the era of state socialism and the poetry in question was part of the system of socialist realism. …”
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