Intro -- Totalitarian Experience and Knowledge Production -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Methodological Notes -- Following the Traces of the Past: The Methodological Pitfalls of Time -- The Object of Sociology vs. Sociology as an Object of Research: The Theoretical Pitfalls of the Conception of Totalitarianism -- Sociology Grappling With Itself: The Conceptual Pitfalls of the Single-variant Disciplinary Self-­referentiality -- Conceptual Framework of the Analysis -- Institutional Cycles of Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 -- From Historical Chronology to Institutional Cyclicity -- Institutional Reanimation of Sociology: 1944-1948/49 -- Institutional Mimicry i: 1948/49-1956 -- Institutional Expansion i: 1956-1968 -- 8.1 Sociology and Politics: Limits of (In)Compatibility -- 8.2 Toward Institutional Expansion: The General and the Specific -- 8.3 Paradoxes in Institutional Expansion -- 8.3.1 Professional Associations Without Sociologists -- 8.3.2 Research Structures Without Educational Structures -- 8.3.3 Conducting Sociological Research Without Professional Experience -- 8.3.4 The Self-Constructing Sociological Public: Inside and Outside the Official Space -- 8.4 Intermediate Recapitulation -- Institutional Mimicry II: 1968-1980 -- 9.1 It All Began With Czechoslovak Sociology … -- 9.2 .... And then the National Sociologies of Poland and USSR Followed -- 9.3 Atypical Cases: Bulgarian and Hungarian Sociology -- 9.4 Intermediate Recapitulation -- Institutional Expansion II: 1980-1989 -- 10.1 It Started With Polish Sociology -- 10.2 "Seedbeds of Experience" in Other National Sociologies -- 10.3 Official Institutional Structures, Old and New, and Their Strategies -- 10.4 Intermediate Recapitulation -- Institutional Cycles: General Conclusion.

Disciplinary Construction of Sociology: Processes and Modalities -- A New Context, a New Object of Research: What Kind of Sociology? -- From a New Deontological to a New Epistemological Model of Social Science Cognition -- Multifaceted Sociology: Modalitiesof Knowledge Production -- 14.1 Sociological Practice Between Theory Deficit and Methodological Rigor -- 14.1.1 From Marxist to Post-Marxist Sociology: The Gradual Cognitive Diversification and Professionalization of Sociological Practice -- 14.1.2 "Empirical" Sociology: From Methodological Rigor to Theoretic Eclecticism -- 14.1.3 From Theoretical Escapes to Conceptual Innovations -- From Loaned Methodologies to Methodological Creativity -- 14.1.3.1 Theoretical Escapes from, Theoretical Escapes to -- 14.1.3.2 Towards Conceptual Innovations -- 14.1.3.3 From Borrowed Methodologies to Methodological Creativity -- 14.1.3.4 "Reinventing the Wheel and/or Setting the Wheel in Motion?" -- 14.2 Sociological Practice in the Continuity of Engagements-Detachments -- 14.2.1 From the Political Project of Socialism as a Goal and Ideal of Society, to the Empirical Reality of Socialism -- 14.2.2 From Studying the Empirical Reality of Socialism to Doubting the System of Socialism -- Summing-up. Production of Scientific Knowledge about the 'Socialist Society': Surmounting the Paradoxes -- Conclusion: "A Legacy Without a Testament" -- Appendix -- 1 Personal Trajectory in Sociology -- 2 Main periods, Principal Sociological Schools, Key-figures, Theoretical and Empirical Achievements in the Development of Sociology in your Country from the mid-1940s to 1989 -- Periods -- Schools -- Key-figures -- 3 The Role of Marxism in the Development of Sociology in the Country.

4 Mode of Sociological Problematization, Criteria of Scientific Truth and Methodological Requirements for Seeking it, Cognitive and Deontological Patterns of Sociology in your Country -- 5 Relations between Sociology and Power -- 6 Relations between Sociology and Society -- 7 Relations between Sociologists in your Country and sociologists from Eastern and Western Europe -- 8 National sociology after 1989-state and trends -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.