Muriel Blaive

Muriel Blaive graduated from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris and obtained her PhD in history at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris . She is currently project leader at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna, Austria and is working on the communist and post-communist period in Central Europe, especially Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic, from a socio-political perspective.

Her main topics of interest in the past years include the official policy of dealing with the communist past in the Czech Republic, as well as oral history and microhistory concerning the communist past - everyday life, nostalgia, transition and democracy, personal dealings with past collaboration, etc. She is the author of Grenzfälle.Österreichische und tschechische Erfahrungen am Eisernen Vorhang, Weitra, Bibliothek der Provinz, 2009 (with Berthold Molden), as well as of the volume Une déstalinisation manquée. Tchécoslovaquie 1956, Brussels, Complexe, 2005. She is also the co-editor of Clashes in European Memory. The Case of the Communist Repression and the Holocaust, New York, Transaction publishers, 2010, forthcoming (with Christian Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger) and of Benešovy dekrety.Budoucnost Evropy a vyrovnávání se s minulostí (The Beneš Decrees. The Future of Europe and Dealing with the Past), Prague, Dokořan, 2003 (with Georges Mink.)