Reclaiming the Personal : Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe.
Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia.
Reclaiming the Personal : Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages)
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.
Reclaiming the Personal underscores the political implications of oral history research in post-socialist Europe and highlights how oral history research in the region differs from that being conducted elsewhere.
9781442625235
Electronic books.
H62.5.E82 / .R435 2015
907.2047
Reclaiming the Personal : Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages)
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.
Reclaiming the Personal underscores the political implications of oral history research in post-socialist Europe and highlights how oral history research in the region differs from that being conducted elsewhere.
9781442625235
Electronic books.
H62.5.E82 / .R435 2015
907.2047