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1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oral history -- Research -- Europe, Eastern
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Social sciences -- Research -- Europe, Eastern
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Social conditions
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Economic history
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Historiography
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Social sciences -- Research
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Eastern -- Historiography
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Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000332
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Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642
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| Subject |
Eastern Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Khanenko-Friesen, Natalia, author, editor.
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Grinchenko, Gelinada, 1971- author, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442625235 |
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1442625236 |
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