The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367263836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Melanie ILIC; Dalia Leinarte

Opis

This innovative and original collection of essays brings together writings by an international team of historians to examine the ethical and methodological issues that arise in the conduct and "good practice" of oral history and memory studies research in the specific context of the former Soviet-dominated socialist bloc in Eastern Europe.

Spis treści

Introductions  Introduction: From Interview to Life Story: Methodology and Ethics in Oral History  Melanie Ilic  Introduction: Silence in Biographical Accounts and Life Stories: The Ethical Aspects of Interpretation  Dalia Leinarte  Part I: Russia  1. Interview with Anastasia Posadskaya: May 1995  Barbara Engel  2. Women’s Everyday Life in Soviet Russia: Collecting Stories, Dealing with Silences and Exploring Nostalgia  Yulia Gradskova  3. Interview as Conversation: Agency and Self-Construction in a Russian Rural Woman’s Story of Courtship and Marriage  Laura J. Olson  Part II: Baltic States  4. The Paradoxes of Family Life Trajectories in Soviet and Post-Soviet Life Strategies  Ingrida Gečienė  5. Research Ethics in Soviet Memory Studies  Sigita Kraniauskienė and Laima Žilinskienė  6. "Not Much Love Lost Between Me and My Husband": Love in Estonian Women’s Life Stories of the Soviet Period  Leena Kurvet-Käosaar  7. History, the Remembered Past and Master Narratives: The Latvian Case  Andrejs Plakans  8. Recycling Archival Sources and Oral History: The Nationalization of Private Housing in Soviet Latvia  Maija Runcis  9. Three (Un)Successful Cases of the Application of Oral History Methods  Aurimas Švedas  Part III: East Central Europe  10. Self-Sacrificing Motherhood: Reconciling Traumatic Life Experiences of Hungarian Collectivisation  Ildikó Asztalos-Morell  11. "We Had to Become Criminals to Survive Under Communism!": Testimonies of Petty Criminality and Everyday Morality in Late Socialist Central Europe  Kelly Hignett  12. Female Voices of Post-War Forced Displacement  Karolina Koziura and Olena Lytovka, with Melanie Ilic

O autorze

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, The University of Birmingham, UK.
 
Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History and Director of the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK.