Muriel Blaive

Muriel Blaive is an Elise Richter Senior Fellow at the University of Graz (Austria.) She was an IFK Senior Fellow in Vienna (2020-21), an EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2018-2019), and was based at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Prague) in the period 2014-2022. She is a socio-political historian of postwar, communist, and post-communist Central Europe, in particular of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. Her most recent publications include the special issue she edited at East European Politics and Society, Writing on Communist History in Central Europe, including her article “The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and its Legacy” (EEPS, 2022), and her edited volume Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe. Regime Archives and Popular Opinion, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.