%0 Journal Article
%T In Search of the Greengrocer (Jak vykl¨¢dat zelin¨¢£¿e)
%A Barbara Day
%J East European Politics and Societies
%@ 1533-8371
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0888325417742493
%X The author reflects on her experience teaching present-day students about life under totalitarianism. Forty years of Communism is a long time; attitudes and opinions matured and shifted¡ªeven (if we examine Havel¡¯s essay) those of his greengrocer. And what should be the focus of the teaching: the terror, the heroism, or the everyday business of living? How can one convey the different levels and subtleties of a world that history presents in black and white? The past could disappear in a hazy memory, but young people, once provoked, ask direct and practical questions that do connect the past to the present
%K Communism
%K unofficial culture
%K teaching contemporary history
%K V¨¢clav Havel
%K Power of the Powerless
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0888325417742493