Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Women’s Experiences of 1937: Everyday Legacies of the Purges and the Great Terror in the Soviet Union

3. Victims and Collective Trauma: Surviving Mass Repression and Living through the Soviet period

4. Women’s Experiences of Repression in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968

5. Women’s Experiences of 1956: Student Protesters and Partisans in Romania

About the Author

Kelly Hignett is a Senior Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History at Vilnius University

Corina Snitar is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow

Eszter Zsofia Toth is in the Research Institute for History, Budapest