Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Anarchive of Memories: Restor(y)ing Cold-War Childhoods -- Mnemo ZIN -- 1. Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing -- Petar Odak -- Diasporic Knowledges in Central Asia: (Re)membering in Jeong -- Olga Mun -- 2. 'I Wanted to See the Man with that Mark on his Forehead': A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory -- Pia Koivunen -- Rua Liga Dos Comunistas -- José Cossa -- 3. Passing Bye -- Hanna Trampert -- Breakfast Across Borders -- Stefanie Weiss -- 4. The Other Side of the Curtain? Troubling Western Memories of (Post)socialism -- Erica Burman -- Smearing the Portrait -- Lucian Țion -- 5. You Can't Go Home Again… Especially if You Have Never Had One -- Madina Tlostanova -- Smuggling Jewelry -- Tatyana Kleyn -- Sleepy Smuggles -- Sarah Fichtner -- 6. The Power of Other Worlds: Civilisational Frames and Child-Adult Intimacies in Socialist Childhoods -- Jennifer Patico -- The Door -- Khanum Gevorgyan -- 7. Growing up in Cold-War Argentina: Working through the (An)archives of Childhood Memories -- Inés Dussel -- Searching for Childhood Gummi Bears -- Nadine Bernhard -- 8. The Secrets: Connections Across Divides -- Irena Kašparová, Beatrice Scutaru, Zsuzsa Millei, Josefine Raasch, and Katarzyna Gawlicz -- Open Coffin -- Irena Kašparová -- 9. Mysterious Cotton Pieces: Childhood Memories of Menstruation -- Katarzyna Gawlicz and Zsuzsa Millei -- Soviet Feminism? -- Nadia Tsulukidze -- 10. Lift Up Your Arms! Elite Athletes and Cold-War Childhoods -- Susanne Gannon and Stefanie Weiss -- Losing Balance -- Tatyana Kleyn -- Adult Hospital Ward -- Irena Kašparová -- 11. Children on their Own: Cold-War Childhood Memories of Unsupervised Times -- Nadine Bernhard and Kathleen Falkenberg -- Nokia -- Nelli Piattoeva -- Blackberry Picking -- Rahim Rahimov.

12. Transcending the Border: Memory, Objects, and Alternative Memorialisation in Cold-War Childhoods -- Ivana Polić -- Snowflake -- Iveta Silova -- New Year's Frog -- Nelli Piattoeva -- 13. Anarchive and Arts-Based Research: Upcycling Rediscovered Memories and Materials -- Raisa Foster -- The Tailor -- Thoma Sukhashvili -- 14. Anarchive, Oral Histories, and Teaching Comparative Cold-War Childhoods across Geographies and Generations -- Elena Jackson Albarrán -- Pink Flamingo -- Iveta Silova -- 15. Connecting Across Divides: A Case Study in Public History of the (e-)Motion Comic 'Ghost Train-Memories of Ghost Trains and Ghost Stations in Former East and West-Berlin' -- Sarah Fichtner and Anja Werner -- Traveling Stones -- Oshie Nishimura-Sahi -- 16. Re-membering Ceremonies: Childhood Memories of Our Relationships with Plants -- Jieyu Jiang, Esther Pretti, Keti Tsotniashvili, Dilraba Anayatova, Ann Nielsen, and Iveta Silova -- List of Figures and Other Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- Index.