I'm down with "prom-munism" so long as they do it right.

Okay, okay -- a bit young for prom.

Proms surely rank among the most forgettable of youthful institutions, but if your high school online/high-schoolers-choose-a-unique-prom-theme-communism/">prom theme is to be communism -- or more cleverly, Prom-munism -- then these youngsters best try to get it right.

Presumably, this communist-themed prom will ensure equal distribution of chips and punch, and abolish the idea of prom kings and queens.

HAR-rumph.

Everyday Communism

The people of eastern Europe lived in communist states for four decades in the 20th century. This website explores their everyday lives from the communist takeovers in the late 1940s through the "golden age" of the 1960s to the end of communist rule in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Topics explored include work, consumption, family, entertainment, privacy, youth, and dissent. The communist countries covered are the eight that were sandwiched between the USSR and western Europe: East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

All of the work posted on this website was done by University of Kansas students enrolled in the course "Everyday Communism." Their work, and this website, is indebted to the growing body of research on everyday life under east European communism.