Communism in Historical Fiction

memory and nostalgia for communism uses and abuses of communism (for example, communism as a narrative means to address contemporary problems or bygone evils and injustices) fighting and/or embracing communism historicising communism and history through the lenses of communism the public and the private communism the tragic and the comic interpretations of communism sympathies and fears evoked by communism (the Red Scare, the Cold War) crimes of communism (tortures, prisons, trials, communism dividing nations and families, traumas, corruption, abuse of power) communisms and their values, ideas, and norms the rise and fall of communism communism versus capitalism legitimisation processes of communism (founding myths, fantasies, manipulation, falsifying history, propaganda, stereotypes) dismantling communism (narratives exposing the lies of communism and challenging its intellectual basis) communist and anti-communist heroes (ideologues, spies, protesters, resistance movement members) communism as a form of oppression and colonisation communism and its wars (with the bourgeoisie, its own people, and non-communist nations) communism as an intellectual revolution, cultural movement, and a substitute for religion affects, agency, and everyday life attitudes towards the environment and industry under communism identity formation under and against communism (love, coming of age, survival, death) philosophical, political, social, and psychological takes on comm