Te Struggle for Legitimacy A Contribution to the Scholarship on Domination and Participation in the Socialist Dictatorships of East-Central Europe Václav Sixta Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague When I sat in the audience of a panel entitled “Making Sense of Dictatorship” at the annual conference of the British Association for Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES) in 2022, I had no idea that I was at a launch of the book of the same name. Nor did I know that a few minutes later, in a modern seminar room overlooking the sunny springtime courtyard of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, I would feel as I did when studying in the irregularly shaped rooms of Celetná Street in Prague, where I attended social history seminars as part of my studies in history about ten years ago. It was there that I frst encountered concepts such as Sinnwelt and Eigen-Sinn and a way of asking questions that went beyond my previous experience in most of the courses I attended. In the time DONERT, Celia – KLADNIK, Ana – SABROW, Martin (eds.): Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe After 1945. Budapest, Central European University Press 2022, 280 pages, ISBN 9789633864272.