ISBN:
9781138933453
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (270 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Approaches to History
Parallel Title:
Print version The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present : Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies
DDC:
306.0947
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive interrogation of the interviewer and researcher, and aspects of gender and national identity. Researchers use oral history to analyze present-day recollections of the Soviet past, thereby extending our understanding beyond archival records, official rhetoric and popular mythology. Oral history explore
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Introductions; From Interview to Life Story: Methodology and Ethics in Oral History; Silence in Biographical Accounts and Life Stories: The Ethical Aspects of Interpretation; Part I Russia; 1 Interview with Anastasia Posadskaya: May 1995; 2 Women's Everyday Life in Soviet Russia: Collecting Stories, Dealing with Silences and Exploring Nostalgia; 3 Interview as Conversation: Agency and Self-Construction in a Russian Rural Woman's Story of Courtship and Marriage; Part II Baltic States
Description / Table of Contents:
4 The Paradoxes of Family Life Trajectories in Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Strategies5 Research Ethics in Soviet Memory Studies; 6 "Not Much Love Lost between Me and My Husband": Love in Estonian Women's Life-Stories of the Soviet Period; 7 History, the Remembered Past and Master Narratives: The Latvian Case; 8 Recycling Archival Sources and Oral History: The Nationalization of Private Housing in Soviet Latvia; 9 Three (Un)Successful Cases of the Application of Oral History Methods; Part III East-Central Europe
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Self-Sacrificing Motherhood: Reconciling Traumatic Life Experiences of Hungarian Collectivisation11 "We Had to Become Criminals to Survive Under Communism!": Testimonies of Petty Criminality and Everyday Morality in Late Socialist Central Europe; 12 Female Voices of Post-War Forced Displacement; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
