EVERYDAY COMMUNISM - On Life, Books and Women in Communist Hungary
EVERYDAY COMMUNISM - On Life, Books and Women in Communist Hungary

Summary/Abstract: I will touch upon one general and three specific topics in this paper. First I will review what totalitarianism looked like in our everyday lives during the decades of communism. Moving on from this general assessment, my second topic addresses the particular issue of intellectual isolation which Central and Eastern Europe suffered. Then I will discuss the discrepancies between how we experienced communist rule and how the West often perceived it. Finally, I will explore the topic of how women were affected by the cumulative legacies of pre-World War II patriarchy and post-World War II communism.

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