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Theories and methods of studying everyday life. Everyday life during communism
Theories and methods of studying everyday life. Everyday life during communism

Author(s): Mihai Gheorghiu, Maria Mateoniu-Micu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: everyday life; communism; historiography; research; methods

Summary/Abstract: Communist everyday life is paradoxical and miraculous in the extreme. Communist everyday life is constantly in a state of unsolvable tension that nonetheless always finds a solution, an incontestable impossibility of survival that always, inevitably, ends in survival, continuity, the vital gesture of resistance as a human being confronted with mechanisms of dissolution, of terror or carceral discipline, of a society that aims to transform the human being into a biological mechanism, a soldier fighting for the cause of the apocalyptic victory of the communist-proletarian economy and justice.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 7-17
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English