Reclaiming the personal : oral history in post-socialist Europe /

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"This edited collection is a contribution to the emerging field of oral history research in the post-socialist societies of Central Europe and former Soviet Union, and demonstrates what oral history can contribute to the changing nature of post-socialist social sciences."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia (Author, Editor), Grinchenko, Gelinada, 1971- (Author, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Since 1989
Oral history > Research > Europe, Eastern.
Social sciences > Research > Europe, Eastern.
Histoire orale > Recherche > Europe de l'Est.
Développement social > Recherche > Europe de l'Est > 1989-
Sciences sociales > Recherche > Europe de l'Est.
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
HISTORY > General.
Social conditions.
Economic history.
Historiography.
Social sciences > Research.
Europe, Eastern > Historiography.
Europe, Eastern > Economic conditions > 1989-
Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Conditions économiques > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Conditions sociales > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Historiographie.
Eastern Europe.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe
  • Part One: From Subjects to Agents of History: Political Implications of Oral Historical Research
  • 1 Political Changes and Personal Orientations: Germany and the European Remembrance Cultures
  • 2 Empowering Files: Secret Police Records and Life Narratives of Former Political Prisoners of the Communist Era in Poland
  • 3 Memory Silenced and Contested: Oral History of the Finnish Occupation of Soviet Karelia
  • Part Two: Reclaiming the Personal: Beyond the Collective Vision of History
  • 4 Restoring the Meaning: "Biographic Work" in Ostarbeiters' Life Stories
  • 5 "We Are Silent about Ourselves": Discussing Career and Daily Life with Female Academics in Russia and Belarus
  • 6 A Commentator or a Character in a Story? The Problem of the Narrator in Oral History
  • Part Three: The Past Differentiated: Revisiting the Second World War and Its Aftermath
  • 7 Experience and Narrative: Anti-Communist Armed Underground in Poland, 1944-1957
  • 8 Forced Labour in Nazi Germany in the Interviews of Former Child Ostarbeiters
  • Part Four: Locating Other Memories of Late Socialism
  • 9 "Renew the Face of the Land, of This Land!" Catholic Culture and the Crises of Sacralization in People's Poland
  • 10 In Search of History's Other Agents: Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s
  • 11 "Where Has Everything Gone?" Remembering Perestroika in Belarusian Provinces
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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