The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement : : The Multiple and Mobile Lives of Memories.

• Superior document: Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
• Author: Saramo, Samira.
• TeilnehmendeR: Savolainen, Ulla.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 pages)

This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era repression and displacement manifest across times and places through diverse forms of materialization.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Moving Memories of Stalin-Era Repression and Displacement -- Research and Cultures of Memory -- Mobile Materializations of Memories -- Transgenerational Implications of Suffering -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I Mobile Becomings -- 1 Gender, Loyalty, and the Epistolary Manifestation of Feeling, 1936-1940 -- Introduction -- Terror, Loyalty, and Gratitude: An Emotional Regime? -- Selves Embedded in History: Letters and Heroism Manifest -- Mobile Gratitude and the Emotional Agency of Letters -- The Body Politic and the Incarnation of Fidelity -- Mothers, Sisters, Wives, and Daughters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Siberian Letters and Memory of Transatlantic Correspondence Between Lithuanians in the West and the Soviet Union -- Introduction -- Lithuanian Displaced Communities -- Siberian Letters -- Parcels -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Mnemonic Affordances of Family Photographs: Assembling Memorability of Displacement and Soviet Repression -- Introduction -- Assemblage and Affordance -- Ella Ojala's Works and the History Narrated -- Affordances of Family Photographs -- 1. Mediation of Memory of Dispersed Family -- 2. Mediation of Ella Ojala's Life Story -- 3. Mediation of Ingrian Finns' History -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Part II Commemorative Materializations -- 4 The Zone: Remembering the Political Repression Camp "Perm-36" -- Introduction -- The Zone as a Portal -- Who Is the Victim Here? -- Testimonies of Non-Witnesses -- Conclusions -- Interviews From the Archival Collection of Museum Perm-36 -- Note -- References -- 5 On the Role of the Individual in Materializing, Mediating, and Commemorating Memories of the Stalinist Repressions -- Introduction.

Broken Cornflower and the Memory of Stalinist Mass Repressions in Estonia -- Enno Uibo: The Life Story Behind the Commemoration Activity -- "Everything Has to Have Someone in Charge": Materializing Commemoration -- Cornflower, Estonian Home, and the Epic Hero: Developing the Cultural Repertoire of Commemoration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 "It Didn't Happen Here, Or Happen Now, But It Happened to Us": Stories of Bread and Hunger in L'viv, Ukraine -- Introduction -- A Brief History of Hunger -- "It Didn't Happen Here Or Happen Now, But It Happened to Us" -- "They Were in Heaven and We Were in Hell" -- Memory and Hunger -- Notes -- References -- Part III Attuning Belonging and Family Memory -- 7 Suffering, Death, and Homeland in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Deportees -- Introduction -- Lost Homeland: Suffering, Death, and Emotional Refuge -- The Return: Rejected By the Homeland Community -- Reunification and Reconciliation: Homeland as the Land of Dead Ancestors -- A New Collective Narrative: Universalized Martyrdom and Deportation -- Notes -- References -- 8 Mediating (Post)Memory in Multilingual and Multicultural Writing: The Autobiographical Texts of Katharina Martin-Virolainen and Anna Soudakova -- Introduction -- Memory "On the Move" -- "We Don't Just Share a Language, But Also a Story and a Destiny": Mediating (Post)memory in Im Letzten Atemzug -- Memories Filling the Forest and the Mind: Commemorating the Victims of the Soviet Terror in Mitä Männyt Näkevät -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Remembering the Ingrian Finns and Soviet Terror in the Novels By Anita and Juhani Konkka -- Introduction -- Bringing Out Memories of Ingrians -- Recollecting the Terror in the Russian Revolution and Civil War -- The Family Disintegrates -- Memories of Stalinist Terror -- The Multivoiced Cultural Memory of the Konkka Family -- Notes.

References -- Part IV Implications of Suffering -- 10 Complicity in Commemoration: The "Traumatic Enfilade" in the Work of Maria Stepanova -- Introduction -- Concepts in History, Analytical Distance, and Implication -- Remediating Critical Concepts of Memory Studies -- A "Traumatic Enfilade" Informs Commemoration -- A Neoliberal Figure of Totalitarianism -- Notes -- References -- 11 Remembering Soviet Terror in the Aftermath of the Donbas War: Mondegreen By Volodymyr Rafeyenko -- Introduction -- War Literature as a Medium of Psychological and Cultural Trauma -- Songs About Death and Love -- Magical Historicism Or Post-Soviet Hauntology -- The Execution -- Intergenerational (Dis)continuity -- Traumatic Repetition and the Irrepresentability of Trauma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12 Afterlives of Gulag Narratives: Fictional (Re)Mediations of Displacement, Neglected Memories, and Repetitive Anxiety -- Introduction -- From Testimonial to Fictional Tropes of Displacement and Repetitive Anxiety -- Intergenerational Transmission of Memory: A Stylistic of Resilience -- A Coda On Multidirectional Memory -- References -- Index.