Intro
Acknowledgements
Foreword. About the Significance of Stories
Introduction. Memories of Change in Central Europe
Thirty Women-Three Countries
Women's Life Stories as Historical Sources
Oral History and the Narrative Approach: Praxis and Theory
1 Dis/connections. Memories of Childhood and the Interwar Period
"And then this Trianon-thing came ... ": The 1920 Treaty of Trianon in Memories
Scene from Childhood: The "Horthy Era" and "Old Yugo" (1920-1941/1944)
Religious Education: Narrating the Political in Childhood Stories
Summary

2 Dance Lessons, Balls and Bullets. Memories of Adolescence and the Second World War
The Happiest and Most Terrible Time
Periodization Through Two Turning Points
Russian Soldier, German Soldier
Mothers and Daughters
Summary
3 Progress or Stagnation? Remembering Adulthood in Socialism
Collectivization Narratives
Stories of Survival and Personal Advancement
Motherhood and the State
Socialist Nostalgia
Socialism in a Narrative of Stagnation
Summary
4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ethnicity in the Voices of Minority Women

The Legacy of Nazism in Personal Memories: Erasure and Ethnicization of a Regime
"Clean as a glass": The Racialization of Difference
Summary
5 Change and Continuity. Stories of Retirement, Old Age and the 1989 Transitions
Rupture: Retiring during the Time of Transitions-A Personal Decision
Continuity: Work during Retirement
Summary
6 A Different Way of History-Telling. Home and Movement in Women's Narratives
Home as "Greater Hungary": Nostalgia for the Lost Land
Home as Community: Nostalgia for the Federation
Home as Movement
Summary

7 "Now we are laughing but back then ... ". Humour and Performative Laughter
Summary
Conclusions. Divided Memories of a Generation
Bibliography