Contents: Klaus Bachmann/Jens Gieseke: Introduction - Jirí Subrt: Mapping the Beginnings of Public Opinion Research in the Czech Lands after World War II - Dragomir Pantic/Zoran Pavlovic: Public Opinion Research in Serbia in the Non-pluralist Period - Jens Gieseke: East German Popular Opinion. Problems of Reconstruction - Oleg Manaev: Public Opinion Polling in Authoritarian States: The Case of Belarus - Klaus Bachmann: Constructing a national myth - the case of the Warsaw Uprising in post-war Poland - Patryk Wasiak: The Appropriation of Social Opinion Survey Research by the State Apparatus in Late State-socialist Poland - Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski: Martial Law in Poland from 1981 to 1983 in View of Public Opinion Polls Conducted by Official Institutions and Underground Organizations - Michal Wenzel: Estimating Trade Union Membership between 1980 and 2012 Using Polling Data - Michael Meyen: Surveys on Media Usage in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Institutions, Validity, and Outcomes - Hans Erxleben: The Dilemma of the Party's Own Opinion Research in the GDR. Insights from a Former SED Pollster.