The project
Our international, interdisciplinary and comparative research project analyses today’s memories of the communist experiment, in order to better understand the legacy of the system. It brings together two strands of inquiry: on communism and on memory. The practice of communism was diverse geographically and diachronically, with specificities between nation-states, as well as within societies. The project covers the whole post-Second World War period, but focuses on the period after de-Stalinization. While paying due attention to institutional aspects of memory, the project’s primary focus is on subjectivity and its pluralizing role in the historical experience of socialism.
