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Guardians of Living History : An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia /
This book interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Heritage and Memory Studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Persisting Pasts in the Margins of Europe
- Part 1. The Making of Estonian History
- 1. Making an Emotional 'History of the People'
- Part 2. The Meaning of Closure
- 2. On the Margins of History: Good Old Soviet Times
- 3. Personal Memories Becoming National History
- 4. Postmemory: The Inherited Obligation to Secure the Future
- 5. Committed to the Past: Memory Activists in Search of Dignity and Justice
- Part 3. Closure and a Significant Other
- 6. WWII on the Periphery of Europe: A Contested Chapter
- Conclusion: Guardians Of Living History
- List of Informants
- Full Reference List
- Index