Negotiating Normality: Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions

“A most welcome addition to an emerging body of literature that discusses various aspects of private and everyday life in Communist times and the ways of remembering life under Communism in the post-socialist era in Eastern Europe.” —Journal of Cold War Studies This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an “ecosystem” of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control. It includes case studies that demonstrate how the major ideological principles of socialism translated into motives guiding people’s lives.