Dreams of Terror: Dreams from Stalinist Russia as a Historical Source

The Long Life of Stalinism: Reflections on the Aftermath of Totalitarianism and Social Memory

“…60 Paperno follows Reinhart Koselleck's argument that dreams can tell us things about repressive regimes that other narratives cannot and that dreams themselves can be seen as instruments or modalities of journal of social history summer 2011 "performance of the terror". 61 In other words, dreams can be paths into histories of affect which are otherwise inaccessible or resistant to direct articulation and are themselves the embodiments and conduits of affective states-fear, terror, powerlessness, persecution mania and guilt.…”