Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University. He is author of Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism and editor of five books on Russian history and culture, including Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present.

Introduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. Norris

Exhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror

1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyt¿

2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory

3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris

4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven Barnes

5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel

Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies

6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris

7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial"/ Daria Mattingly

Exhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life

8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive

9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. Norris

Exhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory

10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy

11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon

12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov

Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits

13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen

14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine Kaljund

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