Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Andrew Kilmister

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Volume 31, issue 3, 2023

The political economy of family life among Romanian Roma: re-discovering politics in economy-related family-level decision-making processes (introduction to the theme section) pp. 483-496

Péter Berta

Ethnic belonging, kinship, and wealth: local politics of descent and group formation in a Roma community pp. 497-515

Töhötöm Szabó

The interconnectedness of marriage politics and luxury consumption: a marital biographical perspective pp. 517-531

Péter Berta

Marriage and the reproductive regime of a digitally connected Roma diaspora pp. 533-559

Juan F. Gamella and Vasile M. Muntean

Migration anxieties in Eastern Europe. Material grounds for an anti-migrant turn in a global-historical perspective? pp. 561-584

Attila Melegh and Zoltán Csányi

The Women’s Complaint: sociolegal mobilization against authoritarian backsliding following the 2020 abortion law in Poland pp. 585-605

Agnieszka Kubal

On peoples, history, and sovereignty pp. 607-627

Chris Hann

The changing world of labour in Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe before and after the 1989/90 transition pp. 629-640

Tibor Valuch

Cyber as sovereignty space: state transformation in the periphery of Europe pp. 641-654

Islam Jusufi

Sports and Physical education as servants of Politics:Physical culture in Hungary between the two world wars pp. 655-665

Ákos Cserny

Italian cultural diplomacy in Estonia during the interwar period: from the de jure recognition to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1921-1939) pp. 667-682

Rosario Napolitano

Differences in sustainability approaches from the mission statements of museums – the case of CEE and other European contemporary art museums pp. 683-701

Zsuzsanna Fehér and Katalin Ásványi

From strategic partner to co-aggressor: Russia’s attempts to lure Belarus into the war in Ukraine pp. 703-717

Robert Gabriel Țicălău

Volume 31, issue 2, 2023

Women and the gendered politics of work in Central and Eastern Europe, and internationally, in the twentieth century: activism, governance, and scale pp. 227-240

Alexandra Ghiț, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa and Susan Zimmermann

“An eight-hour day for women workers”: negotiating working time in the Bulgarian textile industry between international labour politics and the shop floor, 1890s to 1930s pp. 241-260

Ivelina Masheva

The treacherous trade unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and labour activism in the Romanian tobacco sector, 1920s to 1940s pp. 261-278

Alexandra Ghiț

“The rulers are the causes of the war […] They are the reason there is no bread in our town:” women’s food riots in the Hungarian countryside, 1917–1918 pp. 279-299

Eszter Varsa

Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion pp. 301-319

Zhanna Popova

“Millions of working housewives”: the International Co-operative Women’s Guild and household labour in the interwar period pp. 321-338

Jelena Tešija

Spurring Women to Action? Communist-led Women’s Trade Unionism Between the Hungarian Shop Floor and Top-level Internationalism, 1947 to 1959 pp. 339-362

Susan Zimmermann

Part-time work: the co-production of a contested employment model for women in Austria and internationally, 1950s to 1980s pp. 363-383

Veronika Helfert

Environmental stress, majoritarianism, and social unrest in Europe pp. 385-408

Nadia Eldemerdash, Christian B. Jensen and Steven T. Landis

“Dracunculus against the dragon”: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s public vaccination as simultaneous enactment of public health and foreign policy pp. 409-428

Péter Marton, Tamás Matura and Csendike Somogyvári

Work-life balance and parental coping patterns during home schooling as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns: empirical evidence from Bulgaria pp. 429-445

Gabriela Yordanova and Ekaterina Markova

Instrumentalizing gender: from interwar fascism to the Alt Right in Greece pp. 447-466

Rosa Vasilaki and George Souvlis

Untruthful claims, real war, dire consequences: understanding the narrative of the Russian invasion of Ukraine pp. 467-480

Yuriy Savelyev

Inventing the social in Romania 1848–1914. Networks and laboratories of knowledge pp. 481-482

Florin Poenaru

Volume 31, issue 1, 2023

In memoriam: Gáspár Miklós Tamás pp. 1-13

Gareth Dale

Multiple transformations: an introduction pp. 15-26

Maren Hachmeister, Beáta Hock, Theresa Jacobs and Oliver Wurzbacher

Volunteering and care in old age: voices from People's Solidarity in East Germany pp. 27-43

Maren Hachmeister

Biopolitics, care and the transformations of a large institution for children with disabilities in Romania from 1956 to 2015 pp. 45-66

Leyla Safta-Zecheria

From collective to association? Figurations of remembering and former state-owned enterprises in post-1989 Eastern Germany pp. 67-81

Oliver Wurzbacher

Role models versus modes of rule: the foundation of GfZK, a public-private museum in Leipzig pp. 83-94

Franciska Zólyom

Evolving networks: International sponsors of post-socialist art scenes pp. 95-108

Beáta Hock

The house for Sorbian folk art: institutional change in Sorbian folk art after 1989/90 pp. 109-126

Ines Keller and Fabian Jacobs

It could have been different. The cultural and creative sector in transformation from the perspective of arts professionals in the Sorbian ethnic minority pp. 127-146

Theresa Jacobs

Deutschland ist eins: vieles: Bilanz und Perspektiven von Transformation und Vereinigung (Germany is One Thing: Many: A Record and Perspectives of the Transformation and Unification) pp. 147-149

Michael Thomas

Das umstrittene Erbe von 1989: Zur Gegenwart eines Gesellschaftszusammenbruchs (The Contested Legacy of 1989. Contemporary Traces of a Collapsed Society) pp. 149-151

Clemens Villinger

The Postsocialist Contemporary: The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 pp. 151-153

Izabel Galliera

The Influencing Machine: an exhibition curated by Aaron Moulton pp. 153-155

Beáta Hock

Religious statistics in Poland. Legal status, problems, challenges pp. 157-169

Sławomir Romański-Cebula

Geographies of quiescence? Social movements, panoramas of struggle and Baltic austerity politics pp. 171-199

Jokubas Salyga

Imperial dreams and the plains of Eastern Europe pp. 201-209

Georg Menz

Reflections on the Hungarian elections pp. 211-225

Adam Fabry

Volume 30, issue 3, 2022

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

Introduction pp. 307-315

Nigel Swain and Zsuzsanna Varga

Entering their first workplace: women in socialist agriculture. Soviet and Hungarian collective farms compared pp. 317-334

Alexandra Bodnár and Zsuzsanna Varga

Patriarchy and paternalism on a Hungarian collective farm pp. 335-351

Nigel Swain

Negotiating equal rights in everyday life: expectations and experiences of rural women pp. 353-360

Maria Hetzer

Modernity and professional life in the GDR: women in agriculture pp. 361-367

Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz

Gender and entrepreneurship in the formation of family farms during the postsocialist transformation in Hungary pp. 369-389

Ildikó Asztalos Morell

From small-scale agriculture to urban agriculture: women, subsistence economy, and the question of the commons pp. 391-404

Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen

Paradigms and narratives in the historiography on the disintegration of Yugoslavia pp. 405-416

József Juhász

“With courage against the system.” The ideology of the people’s party our Slovakia pp. 417-434

Jakub Drábik

The “Hungarian Model” – the dialectical relationship of the Self and the Other on the background of the 2015 refugee crisis pp. 435-453

Kristián Földes

What is the nature of the war we see in Ukraine? pp. 455-464

Renate Hürtgen

Collapse: the fall of the Soviet Union pp. 465-468

Jeffrey Sommers

Volume 30, issue 2, 2022

The politics and the music mainstream in Central and Eastern Europe: introduction pp. 141-146

Karel Šima and Zdeněk Nebřenský

The music mainstream in communism revisited: a corpus analysis of Czechoslovak pop lyrics (1962–1991) pp. 147-165

Jan Blüml

From discotheques to clubs: the transformation of dance venues and night life between late socialism and early capitalism in the Czechoslovakia pp. 167-182

Jakub Machek

A long march on the mainstream: chronicle of Laibach’s artistic career pp. 183-200

Irena Šentevska

Performing musical personae. Verka Serduchka and Slawomir as examples of critical dance music pp. 201-215

Dawid Kaszuba and Anna Svetlova

“We are of one blood”: Hungarian popular music, nationalism and the trajectory of the song “Nélküled” through radicalization, folklorization and consecration pp. 217-235

Emília Barna and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják

Historical processes and new-left movements: exploring the divergent paths of protest politics in Southeast Europe pp. 237-257

Ivaylo Dinev

An analysis of Aleksandar Vučić’s 2019 national assembly speech pp. 259-272

Andrej Semenov

“We did not unleash this war. Our conscience is clear”. The Russia–Ukraine military conflict and its perception in Belarus pp. 273-284

Sergei A. Mudrov

The anatomy of a war pp. 285-297

Eszter Bartha

Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class: The Story of Two Self-Managed Factories pp. 299-300

Carlos González-Villa

The Hungarian agricultural miracle? Sovietization and Americanization in a communist Country pp. 301-303

Hans Jörgensen

Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: between critical whiteness and epistemic injustice pp. 303-305

Angéla Kóczé

Volume 30, issue 1, 2022

Historicizing postsocialist privatization at the juncture of the cultural and the economic pp. 1-9

Veronika Pehe and Vítězslav Sommer

Commodifying postsocialist cinema: filmmakers and the privatization of the Polish and Czech film industry after 1989 pp. 11-26

Veronika Pehe

Transformation as transnational process: German-Czech economic relations after 1989 pp. 27-43

Eva Schäffler

A strong Mittelstand as a beacon of the social market economy? How historical legacies influenced privatization strategies and outcomes in Brandenburg and Saxony pp. 45-62

Max Trecker

Beating capitalists at their own game? Foreign traders and western negotiation studies in late-socialist Hungary pp. 63-81

Máté Rigó

“The future is in your hands”: temporality and the neoliberal self in the Czech voucher privatization pp. 83-99

Martin Babička

Presenting the results of the shadow economy survey in Ukraine while reflecting on the future(s) of informality studies pp. 101-123

Abel Polese, Gian Marco Moisé, Olha Lysa, Tanel Kerikmäe, Arnis Sauka and Oleksandra Seliverstova

Radical higher education alternatives: lessons from socialist pasts and neoliberal presents pp. 125-136

Felipe Ziotti Narita, Natalia-Rozalia Avlona and Mariya Ivancheva

From socialist to capitalist walls pp. 137-139

Gabor Scheiring