Introduction: the socialist experience and beyond
Creatures of the event: subject production in the reconstruction era
Producing revolutionary consciousness in the times of radical socialism
The testifying orphan: rethinking modernity's optimism
Children of the revolution: the rebirth of the subject in revisionist discourse
The family of victims: Stalinism revisited in the 1980s
Epilogue: the abandoned offspring of late socialism.
Orphans of the East : postwar Eastern European cinema and the revolutionary subject by Constantin Parvulescu. ISBN 9780253016850. Published by Indiana University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.