Guardians of Living History : : An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia / / Inge Melchior.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage and Memory Studies ;
9 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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