Aspasia

<p>In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central Eastern and South- eastern Europe (CESEE) a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme section in this volume of <i>Aspasia</i>: women's auto-biographical writing and correspondence. Articles in this section examine women's autobiographical writing in the second half of the nineteenth century and women's written memories of epochal moments in the Soviet past: the Holodomor (or Great Famine) that convulsed Ukraine in the aftermath of forced collectivization and the experience of women soldiers during World War II. <p>Also in this volume we present the continuation of a fascinating forum on women's and gender history in CESEE Clio on the Margins edited by Krassimira Daskalova (the first five essays appeared in Aspasia [volume 6]). The eight essays in this section provide a comprehensive look at the state of the field of women's and gender history in Albania Bulgaria Croatia Greece Hungary Lithuania Poland and Russia. <p>The volume concludes with two more general articles two book review essays twenty book reviews and a conference report.