Baltic Socialism Remembered (eBook, PDF)

Memory and Life Story since 1989
Redaktion: Kõresaar, Ene

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores various intersections between individual and collective memories in the Baltic states after 1989, paying a special attention to life stories.

It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351361989
• Artikelnr.: 57413680

Autorenporträt

Ene Kõresaar is an Associate Professor of Ethnology at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her main research fields are memory of World War II and socialism, oral history and life writing; she has also published on commemorative journalism and museums. She has edited and co-authored several books on cultural memory and life stories with a particular focus on post-communist developments.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Life story as cultural memory: making and mediating Baltic socialism since 1989 In memoriam: Aili Aarelaid-Tart 2. Re-educating teachers: ways and consequences of Sovietization in Estonia and Latvia (1940-1960) from the biographical perspective 3. Points of memory in the narrative of a 'Mnemonic Warrior': gender, displacement, and the anti-Soviet war of resistance in Lithuania 4. Memory of socialism and the Russian Orthodox believers in Estonia 5. The construction of continuous self in the life stories of former Soviet officials in Lithuania 6. Between improvisation and inevitability: former Latvian officials' memoirs of the Soviet era 7. We were the children of a romantic era: nostalgia and the nonideological everyday through the perspective of a 'Silent Generation'