Introduction; Part I: The Logic of Gender and Generation(s): Theoretical Approaches;
1. Generational and Gendered Memory of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Methodological Perspectives and Political Challenges;
2. Acting and Memory, Hope and Guilt: The Bond of Generations in Arendt, Benjamin, Heine, and Freud; Part II: Generations and Gender in Historical Contexts: Comparative Case Studies; 3 Communism, Left Feminism, and Generations in the 1930s: The Case of Yugoslavia;
4. Communisms, Generations, and Waves: The Cases of Italy, Yugoslavia, and Cuba;
5. Generations of Italian Communist Women and the Making of a Women’s Rights Agenda in the Cold War (1945?68): Historiography, Memory, and New Archival Evidence;
6. The Making of Turkish Migrant Left Feminism and Political Generations in the Ruhr, West Germany (1975?90); Part III: Women’s Biographical Experiences and Communism;
7. "Old" Women and "Old" Revolution: The Role of Gender and Generation in Postwar Polish Communist Women’s Political Biographies;
8. Biographical Experience and Knowledge Production: Women Sociologists and Gender Issues in Communist Poland;
9. Without Tradition and Without Female Generation? The Case of Czech Artist Ester Krumbachova; Part IV: Aesthetic Representations of Gendered Generations in Communism and Beyond;
10. Girls from the Polish Youth Union: (Dis)remembrance of the Generation;
11. "We’re Easy to Spot": Soviet Generation(s) After Soviet Era and the Invention of the Self in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets;
12. Entering Gray Zones: Questions of Female Identity, Political Commitment, and Personal Choices in Ji?ina ?iklova’s Memoir of Life Under Socialism and Beyond;
13. Gender, Generational Conflict, and Communism: Tonia Lechtman’s Story; Conclusion: From "Communism as Male Generational History" to a More Inclusive Narrative