The left side of history : World War II and the unfulfilled promise of communism in Eastern Europe

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The left side of history : World War II and the unfulfilled promise of communism in Eastern Europe

Kristen Ghodsee

Duke University Press, 2015

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-224) and index

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In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight and sometimes die for a cause they believed to be right. Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today in democratic Eastern Europe there is ever-increasing despair, disenchantment with the post-communist present, and growing nostalgia for the communist past. These phenomena are difficult to understand in the West, where "communism" is a dirty word that is quickly equated with Stalin and Soviet labor camps. By starting with the stories of people like Thompson and Lagadinova, Ghodsee provides a more nuanced understanding of how communist ideals could inspire ordinary people to make extraordinary sacrifices.

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List of Maps and Illustrations ix Prologue. Communism 2.0? xi A Note on Transliteration xxi Part I. The Way We Remember the Past Determines Our Dreams for the Future 1. The Mysterious Major Frank Thompson 3 2. A Communist by Any Other Name . . . 11 3. "I Simply Want to Fight" 21 4. The Brothers Lagadinov 34 5. A Failed Petition 41 6. Lawrence of Bulgaria? 49 7. Ambushed in Batuliya 57 8. Guerillas in the Mist 63 9. Everyday Life as a Partisan 69 10. Blood of a Poet 84 11. The Head Hunted 90 12. Words of One Brother on the Death of Another 97 Part II. The Remains of the Regime 13. The Retired Partisan 101 14. A Woman's Work Is Never Done 113 15. History Is Written by the Victors 126 16. On Censorship and the Secret Police 134 17. The Politics of Truth 144 18. Cassandra's Curse 151 19. The Red Samaritan 155 20. The Past Is a Foreign Country 165 21. A Moment of Redemption 176 Conclusion. On the Outskirts of Litakovo 187 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 Selected Bibliography 219 Index 225

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