Representing Communism After the Fall

Cristian Tileagă is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the School of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. His research interests include discursive psychology, prejudice and social exclusion, and interdisciplinarity. He has published widely on these topics.

• Preface.- Introduction: what does coming to terms with the past mean?.- 1. Transitional justice as situated practices.- 2. Collective and cultural memory:  ethics, politics, and avoidance in remembering communism.- 3. Communism as moral problem.- 4. Communism as Other.- 5. Mea culpa.- 6. Remembering with and through archives.- 7. Transgression and the social construction of moral meanings.- 8. Using discursive psychology to explore contested and troubled pasts.