Remembering Childhood Under Communism: Personal Narratives and Material Culture in the Slow Memory Framework

Rose Joy Smith and Andreea Elle Vas

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Abstract: This article examines how the afterlives of state socialism are made legible in contexts where the everyday past is only partially documented, materially fragmented, or absent from visual archives. Focusing on childhood memories of communist Romania in the 1980s and their remediation in post-socialist museum spaces in Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw, it argues that the legibility of this past does not depend primarily on the recovery of missing images or the reconstruction of singular historical events, but on the curatorial reactivation of rhythms of everyday life.

Date: 2026-05-26
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