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Treasured memories : tales of buried belongings in wartime Estonia /

In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance; most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burström, Mats
Otros Autores: Merton, Charlotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Swedish
Publicado: Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Hidden in the ground
  • 2. Artefactual memory
  • Contemporary archaeology
  • Things to remember
  • Memory and history
  • 3. Historical background
  • Estonia seized by the Soviet Union, 1940
  • German occupation 1941-1944
  • Soviet reoccupation and mass exodus, 1944
  • Continued Soviet occupation, 1944-1991
  • Estonian independence, 1991
  • 4. Stories
  • Searching for stories
  • Unknown knowledge
  • Lost knowledge
  • Secret knowledge
  • Fragmentary knowledge
  • Undervalued knowledge
  • Stories about buried family treasure
  • Letti Rapp.
  • Helga Nou
  • Adu Aunver and Indrek Aunver
  • Maret Kalm
  • Ester Salasoo
  • Kalju and Birgitta Luksepp
  • Ahto Kant
  • Adam Kreek
  • Filip Laurits
  • Toomas Petmanson
  • Other voices
  • Maiu Preismann
  • Tiiu Andrae
  • Rutt Hinrikus
  • Pille-Mai Laas
  • Erwin Pari
  • Virve Raag
  • P. Aarne Vesilind
  • Urmas Wompa
  • Aino Mullerbeck
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Aksella Kirotaja and Regina Kirotaja
  • Anonymous Swedish-Estonian
  • Andres Tvauri
  • 5. The land as memory bank
  • Recurring narrative themes
  • Why hide things by burying them?
  • Looking beyond Estonia
  • Archaeological reflections
  • Notes.