Kolejka/Queue: The Board Game. Created by Karol Madaj (Warsaw: Institute of National Remembrance, 2011)

Kolejka/ Queue is a board game that tells a story of everyday life in Poland at the tail-end of the communist era. At first glance, the task of the 2 to 5 players appears quite simple: they have to send out their family, which consists of 5 pawns, to various stores on the game board to buy all the items on their randomly drawn shopping list. The problem is, however, that the shelves in the five neighborhood shops are empty…

Kolejka in News and Reviews: Spiegel Online, Associated Press, BBC News.

Gameplay Run-through (1 and 2) and Final Thoughts on Youtube . 3 copies available in the REEEC Multimedia Library. It works well if students team up in groups of two to play as one family.

To borrow a copy of the board game, please email reec@illinois.edu.

Bren, Paulina. The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Bren, Paulina and Mary Neuburger, eds. Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Boym, Svetlana. Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Boston, Mass., 1995)

Crowley, David and Susan Reid. Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the East Bloc. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2010.

Fehér, Ferenc, Ágnes Heller and György G. Márkus, Dictatorship Over Needs: An Analysis of Soviet Societies. London: Basil Blackwell, 1983.

Giustino, Cathleen M., Catherine J. Plum, and Alexander Vari, eds. Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989. New York: Berghahn, 2013.

Gorsuch, Anne and Diane P. Koenker. The Socialist Sixties: Crossing Borders in the Second World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Klumbyte, Neringa and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism (Lanham, 2013).

Koenker, Diane P. Club Red: Vacation, Travel and the Soviet Dream (Ithaca, 2013).

Ledeneva, Alena. Russia’s Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange (New York, 1998)

Luthar, Breda and Marusa Pusnik, eds. Remembering Utopia: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia. Washington, D.C: New Academia Publishing, 2013.

Massino, Jill and Shana Penn, eds. Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe (New York, 2009).

Reid, Susan E. “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and De-Stalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev,” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (Summer 2002).

Scarboro, Cristofer. The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent Present Tense. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.

Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

The novels, films, and documentaries listed below are available free of charge from our Multimedia Library. For requests, please contact reeec@illinois.edu.

FICTION AND OTHER PRINTED SOURCES:

Büchel, Cristoph and Giovanni Carmine, eds. Ceau [Paintings of Ceausescu and his wife commissioned by the Romanian Communist Party or gifted by artists from the collection of the Museum of National Arts] (Bucharest, 2009).

Daniels, Robert V., ed. A Documentary History of Communism in Russia: From Lenin to Gorbachev(Hanover, 1993).

Drakulic, Slavenka. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (New York, 1993)

Fisher, Tibor. Under the Frog: A Novel (New York, 1992).

Jinga, Luciana Mãrioara. Student during the Communist Regime (Bucharest, 2009). This is a bilingual (Romanian-English) collection of essays written by students as part of the essay&graphic art contest organizd by the Ministry of Education, Research and Youth with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania.

Lafont, Maria, ed. Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection (London, 2007).

Vincze, Mátyás et al, eds. Kor-képek [Press Photos from the Kádár-era, Hungary]. 5 vols. [1948-1955, 1956, 1957-1967, 1968-1979, 1980-1989] (Budapest, 2004-2011).

Young, Glennys. The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century: A Global History Through Sources(New York, 2011).

Zinoviev, Alexander. Homo Sovieticus (New York, 1986).

DOCUMENTARIES:

Mikhalov, Nikita. Anna. Camera One and Studio Trite, 1994.

Ranga, Dana and Andrew Horn, dir. East Side Story. Anda Films, 1997.

Papp, Zsigmond Gábor, dir. Balaton retró. 2. vols. Budapest Film, 2007.

MOTION PICTURES:

Becker, Wolfgang, dir. Good Bye Lenin! Sony, 2004.

Rappaport, Gerbert, dir. Shostakovich Cherry Town. Lenfilm, 1963.

DIGITAL ARCHIVES, WEBSITES AND BLOGS:

Photo Archive, Museum of National History, Romania. http://www.comunismulinromania.ro/Arhiva-foto/Cotidian.html.

Photo Collection of S.E., (U.S. Embassy Staff member), “Romania, 1984-1986, As Seen from the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest,” Alex Galmeanu’s blog http://www.muzeuldefotografie.ro/2013/08/romania-vazuta-din-ambasada-sua.

Communist Shop Windows (Russia/Soviet Union). David Hlynsky’s Photographs.http://davidhlynsky.com/WindowShopMain.html.

Igor S’s Photo Archive (Russia/Soviet Union). http://englishrussia.com/category/history.

“Collection Catalogue,” Soviet Poster Collection (Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College).

Tessa Dunlop, “A Lost City: Photos of Bucharest’s Past,” BBC News Magazine, 4 October 2013, atwww.bbc.com/news/magazine-24368485 (last accessed 10 March 2014).

OTHER CURRICULAR RESOURCES:

Cathleen M. Giustino, “Everyday Life in Eastern Europe,” Making the History of 1989 (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media, 2007-2014).

Piltser, Vitaly. “Blat.” (Student project at Pace University).

Vinokour, Irina. “‘Second Economy’ and Blat in the Soviet Union” (Student project at Pace University).

Utekhin, Ilya, Alice Nakhimovsky, Slava Paperno and Nancy Ries. Communal Living in Russia: A Virtual Museum of Soviet Everday Life (Colgate University).