Life story as cultural memory: making and mediating Baltic socialism since 1989

Kõresaar, Ene

doi:10.1080/01629778.2016.1248675

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“…Kaip rašo Aleida Assmann ir Linda Shortt, "vyresnių kartų patirčiai traukiantis į visuomenės pakraščius ir prarandant savo aktualumą (išskyrus išskirtinį istorijos liudininkų vaidmenį), centre atsiduria jaunesnioji karta, atskleisdama naujus bendrų patirčių horizontus" (Assmann and Shortt 2012;7). Tyrimai rodo, kad skirtingos kartų patirtys yra vienas svarbiausių pokomunistinių Baltijos šalių kolektyvinę atmintį struktūrinančių formatų (Kõresaar 2016;436) ir svarbus šiose šalyse vyraujančių sovietmečio atminties kultūros diskursų kaitos veiksnys (Jõesalu and Kõresaar 2013;Kõresaar and Jõesalu 2016). Taip pat pažymima, kad komunizmo atmintis Rytų Europoje yra daugiausia komunikacinė 1 , todėl svarbus vaidmuo joje tenka įvairių grupių ir individų patirčių prisiminimams (Kovács 2003;155-156).…”

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Between the Critique of Socialism and Childhood Nostalgia: The Memory of Soviet Era in the Life Stories of the 1970s Generation

Šutinienė

2020

STA

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The article examines the autobiographical memory of the 1970s generation about the Soviet era. This generation, born in 1970–1979, is interesting for research because of its socialization in two different social and political systems: its childhood and adolescence date back to the Soviet period, while the beginning of adulthood coincides with the collapse of socialism and the restoration of democracy. Based on an analysis of life stories of the 1970s generation, the article explores features of memory of this generation, how it corresponds to the discourse of autobiographical memory of the Soviet era, as well as the generation’s role in the intergenerational transmission of Soviet-era family memory.

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Between the Critique of Socialism and Childhood Nostalgia: The Memory of Soviet Era in the Life Stories of the 1970s Generation

Šutinienė

2020

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“…In Estonia and the Baltics, the biographical sources created in the 1990s and 2000s have a special meaning, as they were assumed to convey the “true memory” of the Soviet past as opposed to “false” ideological conceptions. Writing about their life experiences, the narrators used the opportunity to criticise the Soviet way of life and to “argue socially, culturally and politically” (Kõresaar, 2018, p. 4). Kõresaar, however, points out that different types of sources address different layers of the phenomenon (Kõresaar, 2018, p. 5).…”

Section: Analysis: Experiences Of Places and Peoplementioning

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Narrated Soviet tourist landscapes during late socialism

Rattus

Järs

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose The study aims to provide an insight into the inherent diversities and ambiguities of Soviet touristic landscapes during the period of late socialism by a means of Estonian biographical sources. Based on written narratives, the study focuses on the embodied ways in which Estonian travellers engaged with and experienced foreign landscapes and people during trips within the Soviet Union. Design/methodology/approach The study treats tourists’ travel landscapes as meaningful, lived experiences that highlight features and everyday life strategies that were characteristic of the Soviet period. Approaching via the lens of Estonian culture and nationality, the study analyses the meaningful experiences through which the narrators drew boundaries between the self and the other. Findings The Soviet tourism landscape of the 1960s–1980s was marked by sharp cultural contrasts. The landscapes that unfold in the narratives were full of contradictions, arousing feelings of both admiration and alienation. Whilst the ideological purpose of Soviet tourism was to build a “socialist nation”, the themed narratives, on the other hand, demonstrate the wide spectrum of everyday life practices, which show both the distancing of oneself from the Soviet system as well as conformation with it. Although tourism helped travellers accept the Union, this was achieved not by consenting to socialist ideology, but by becoming familiar with its heterogeneity. Originality/value Research on Soviet tourism has largely relied on archival sources and the press, which shed light mainly on the organisation and ideological basis of tourism. Drawing on oral sources, this study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the complex nature of Soviet tourist landscapes.

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“…When it comes to the twentieth century, the calendars become more ‘synchronised’ with three distinct clusters observable in all three calendars, indicating a tendency towards ‘Baltic Memory’ (Kõresaar, 2016: 431; see Figure 2). The first twentieth-century cluster captures the period of the Wars of Independence and early parliamentary years (≈ 1918-early 1920s), marking the beginning of Baltic statehood and underlying their democratic credentials.…”

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“…Similarly, Mārtiņš Kaprāns (2016) argued that while the preservation of the anti-Soviet narrative in Latvia retains its place as ‘a pivotal legitimating historical force’, it conversely coexists with the ‘alternative and emancipated discourses’ (p. 102). Thus, while memory of the late-Soviet period is silenced within national memory, it nevertheless finds a ‘voice’ within other formats of memory and through mediums such as ‘life writing’, theatre and newspapers (also see Kõresaar, 2016; Onken, 2010).…”

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Revisiting the social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Andrejevs

2018

Memory Studies

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This article presents a study of the social organisation of the national memories of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (the Baltic states). It draws inspiration from and expands the scope of the application of Eviatar Zerubavel's largely unexplored methodological tools for the study of calendars. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is threefold. First, this paper offers an application of the above tools to the case of the Baltic states. Second, by doing so it provides an overview of comparative patterns within Baltic calendars. Third, it is argued that by exposing the social organisation of national memory, this approach offers insight into silences, providing an entry point for an engagement with amnesiology, as coined by Liedeke Plate.

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Life story as cultural memory: making and mediating Baltic socialism since 1989

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Between the Critique of Socialism and Childhood Nostalgia: The Memory of Soviet Era in the Life Stories of the 1970s Generation

Between the Critique of Socialism and Childhood Nostalgia: The Memory of Soviet Era in the Life Stories of the 1970s Generation

Narrated Soviet tourist landscapes during late socialism

Revisiting the social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

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