Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9780415681100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Li Bennich-Bjarkman; Aili Aarelaid-Tart

Opis

This volume brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the 20th century; occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: On Living through the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States  2. Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their Context  3. Everyday Life, Power and Agency in Soviet Latvia  4. Before we Return Home: The Collective Strategies of Latvian World War II Refugees Adapting to Swedish Society  5. Working through Mature Socialism: Private and Public in the Estonians' Meaning-Making of the Soviet past  6. Tell me Your Story – Russians in Independent Estonia  7. Discussing Ethnic Identities with Russian-Speakers in Rural Estonia and Latvia  8. Exit from Communism: Career Decisions of the Lithuanian Young Communist Functionaries  9. Catching up with the West? An Insider’s Perspective from Lithuania  10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions – the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai  11. Basic Human Values’ Dynamics and Biographical Findings

O autorze

Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and headof the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia. Li Bennich-Björkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.