Outside the "Comfort Zone"

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020

Outside the "Comfort Zone"

Performances and Discourses of Privacy in Late Socialist Europe

Edited by: Tatiana Klepikova and Lukas Raabe

Volume 5 in the series Rethinking the Cold War

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110606874

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About this book

Traditionally, privacy studies have focused on the liberal democratic societies of the global West, whereas non-democratic contexts have played a marginal role in the discussion of the private and public spheres, not in the least because of the political stances of the Cold War era. This volume offers explorations of highly diversified performances and discourses of privacy by various actors which were embedded into the culturally, economically, and politically specific constructions of late socialism in individual states of the Warsaw Pact. While the experience of socialism varied across the Bloc, there were also some reactions to socialism and some reverse responses of socialist regimes to these reactions that one can trace through all states. Contributions to this volume take us across the Eastern Bloc and beyond it—from the Soviet Union, into late socialist Poland, Romania, and East and West Germany. While looking at specific countries, they provide a glimpse into a broader perspective that reaches beyond the borders of individual late socialist states. Together, these articles document a palette of paradigms of the construction and transformation of the private spheres that overcame the national borders of individual states and left an imprint across the Eastern Bloc, thereby contributing to rethinking Cold War rhetoric in regard to these states.

Author information

Tatiana Klepikova and Lukas Edeler, University of Passau, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
On Privacy and Its “Comfort Zones” Revisiting Late Socialist Contexts Tatiana Klepikova and Lukas Raabe Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Beyond the Everyday: Social Performances of Privacy
Kak u sebia doma The Personal, the Private, and the Question of Privacy in Soviet Russia Lewis H. Siegelbaum Publicly Available Download PDF	27
Opportunities and Boundaries of Personal Autonomy in East German Tourism Jon Berndt Olsen Publicly Available Download PDF	47
Negotiating Social Needs Ideas of a Good Life in Late Socialist Poland Natali Stegmann Publicly Available Download PDF	73
The Private and The Public in Polish Reportage from Late Socialism Agnieszka Sadecka Publicly Available Download PDF	93
The Sounds of Youth: From Private Flats to Public Stages
The Sad Butterflies of the 1980s Sexual Intimacy among Youths in 1980s’ Romania Andra-Octavia Cioltan-Drăghiciu Publicly Available Download PDF	123
Rocking Out Within Oneself Rock and Jazz Music between the Private and the Public in Late Socialist Romania Claudiu Oancea Publicly Available Download PDF	145
“There’s No Silence in a Block of Flats” Fluid Borders Between the Private and Public Spheres in Representations and Practices of Punk in Socialist Poland Xawery Stańczyk Publicly Available Download PDF	173
The Elusive Narrated Self: Literary and Cinematic Explorations
Without Witness Privacy and Normal Life in Late Soviet Cinema Irina Souch Publicly Available Download PDF	203
The Overturned House The Tension between the Public and the Private in Late Soviet Culture David Gillespie Publicly Available Download PDF	227
The Private and the Public in the Life Writings of Dissenters in Late Socialist Russia A Female Perspective Christina Jüttner Publicly Available Download PDF	245
On Both Sides of Surveillance and Doctrine: (Re‐)Claiming Agency
Privacy, Political Agency, and Constructions of the Self in Texts Written by Dissidents Mirja Lecke Publicly Available Download PDF	287
Privacy as a Weapon? The Mysterious Health of Hermann Kant Thomas Goldstein Publicly Available Download PDF	313
Privacy “Detached from Purely Private Tendencies” Preserving Interpretational Control in Marxist-Leninist Discourses of the Late Socialist GDR Lukas Raabe Publicly Available Download PDF	341
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	375
Name Index Publicly Available Download PDF	379
Subject Index Publicly Available Download PDF	383

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Slavic studies; contemporary history; European history; Russian and East-Central European studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 388
Keywords: Cold War; Privacy; Socialism; Public

eBook

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110606874

Hardcover

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110603651