ISBN:
9781000892963
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Statement:
Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Political persecution-Soviet Union
;
Collective memory-Former Soviet republics
;
Former Soviet republics-Social conditions
;
Former Soviet republics-Civilization
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization.
Abstract:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Moving Memories of Stalin-Era Repression and Displacement -- Research and Cultures of Memory -- Mobile Materializations of Memories -- Transgenerational Implications of Suffering -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Mobile Becomings -- 1 Gender, Loyalty, and the Epistolary Manifestation of Feeling, 1936-1940 -- Introduction -- Terror, Loyalty, and Gratitude: An Emotional Regime? -- Selves Embedded in History: Letters and Heroism Manifest -- Mobile Gratitude and the Emotional Agency of Letters -- The Body Politic and the Incarnation of Fidelity -- Mothers, Sisters, Wives, and Daughters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Siberian Letters and Memory of Transatlantic Correspondence Between Lithuanians in the West and the Soviet Union -- Introduction -- Lithuanian Displaced Communities -- Siberian Letters -- Parcels -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Mnemonic Affordances of Family Photographs: Assembling Memorability of Displacement and Soviet Repression -- Introduction -- Assemblage and Affordance -- Ella Ojala's Works and the History Narrated -- Affordances of Family Photographs -- 1. Mediation of Memory of Dispersed Family -- 2. Mediation of Ella Ojala's Life Story -- 3. Mediation of Ingrian Finns' History -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Part II Commemorative Materializations -- 4 The Zone: Remembering the Political Repression Camp "Perm-36" -- Introduction -- The Zone as a Portal -- Who Is the Victim Here? -- Testimonies of Non-Witnesses -- Conclusions -- Interviews From the Archival Collection of Museum Perm-36 -- Note -- References -- 5 On the Role of the Individual in Materializing, Mediating, and Commemorating Memories of the Stalinist Repressions -- Introduction.
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