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Trauma of Communism
The volume includes the papers presented at “The Trauma of Communism” conference organized by the Catholic University Partnership (CUP) in June 2021. The conference was held as a part of the CUP international research project “Faith and Freedom” initiated in 2019 by the Institute of Church History, International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues, Faculty of Social Sciences of the Ukrainian
Catholic University and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame.
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The Trauma of Communism / ed. by Clemens Sedmak, A. James McAdams.
Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press 2022. – 300 p.
ISBN 978-617-7608-53-9
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Contents
Clemens Sedmak
Volodymyr Turchynovskyy
Preface
Oleh Turiy
Introduction
Clemens Sedmak
The Trauma of Communism Past and Present: An Introduction
Keynote Address
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Myroslav Marynovych
The Reincarnation of Forgotten Communist Crimes
Stories from
Czechia
Tomáš Halík
A Personal Reflection
Croatia
Višnja Starešina
The Trauma of Communism:
Missing People and the Silence Imposed by the Regime
Mario Bara
The Croatian Trauma of Communism: An Example of the Struggle to Maintain National Identity
Andrea Feldman
Proto-Feminists Despite Themselves: Women and the Catholic Church in Croatia in the Aftermath of the Second Vatican Council
Georgia
Vaja Vardidze
Church Sovietization and Its Outcomes
Hungary
Barbara Bank
Seminary for Priests in the Internment Camp
of Kistarcsa (1949–1950)
Poland
Sławomir Nowosad
Communism and the Church: Personal Recollections
Maciej Münnich
The Light-Life Movement in Poland Under the Communists
Bogusław Migut
Scouting in Poland during the Communist Period
Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik
Do Not Judge, Beware
Slovakia
Marek Babic
A Broken Political Prisoner – a Slovak Story
Ján Baňas
To Heal Evil with Love
Ukraine
Taras Dobko
The Trauma of “Homo Sovieticus”
Volodymyr Turchynovskyy
A Pilgrimage to Freedom
Conclusion
A. James McAdams