Epilogue

Abstract

In this Epilogue, which is based on a series of interviews with 38 British and Dutch cradle communists who participated in an oral history project about communist family life, participants consider their childhood, value their upbringing, but also discuss their adulthood and how they implemented their political upbringing in their adult life. It focuses in particular on participants’ feelings and thoughts surrounding the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.