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Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century; occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, democratic rule, and market economy. The twentieth-century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but strategically well-located territories have historically found themselves in the middle of many power struggles between larger states, empires, and other power-holders: the Teutonic Knights, Swedish kings, Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. Today, they are once again forced to stand up to the Russian Federation.

Biographical interviewing is a field focused on individuals, and on how those individuals choose to recreate and present their lived lives, make meaning of it through the narratives they tell. To interpret the biographical narrations of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians, shaped by complex and controversial historical background, the authors use Pierre Bourdieus concept of social and cultural capitals, the principles of Erving Goffmans framing analysis and Alessandro Portellis distinction of private and public spheres, Anton Steens investigations of post-socialist elites and Piotr Sztompkas theory of cultural trauma, etc. Given analyses of particular biographical narrations are supplemented by brief historical and sociological overviews, which allow the reader to better understand the contexts of lived lives, and the mental atmosphere in which the interviews were conducted.

Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.

Li Bennich-Bjrkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Routledge/European sociological association studies in
European societies

Series editors: Thomas P. Boje, Max Haller, Martin Kohli and
Alison Woodward

1 European Societies

Fusion or fission?

Edited by Thomas P. Boje, Bart van Steebergen and Sylvia Walby

2 The Myth of Generational Conflict

The family and State in ageing societies

Edited by Sara Arber and Claudine Attias-Donfut

3 The End of the Welfare State?

Responses to State retrenchment

Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby

and Stefan Svallfors

4 Will Europe Work?

Integration, employment and the social order

Edited by Martin Kohli and Mojca Novak

5 Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies

Edited by Martin Kohli and Alison Woodward

6 Young Europeans, Work and Family

Futures in transition

Edited by Julia Brannen, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen and Janet Smithsen

7 Autobiographies of Transformation

Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha

8 Europe and Asia Beyond East and West

Edited by Gerard Delanty

9 Cultural Overstretch

Differences between old and new member states of the EU and Turkey

Edited by Jrgen Gerhards

10 Social Class in Europe

An introduction to the European socio-economic

classification

Edited by David Rose and Eric Harrison

11 Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society

Edited by Patrick Baert, Sokratis M. Koniordos, Giovanna Procacci and

Carlo Ruzza

12 Muslims in 21st Century Europe

Structural and cultural perspectives

Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou

13 Internationalisation of Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe

The catching up a myth or a strategy?

Edited by Ilona Pln Kovcs and Dagmar Kutsar

14 Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart

and Li Bennich-Bjrkman

Baltic Biographies at Historical
Crossroads

Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart and
Li Bennich-Bjrkman

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Bjrkman

The right of Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Bjrkman to be identified

as authors of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual

chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the

Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Baltic biographies at historical crossroads/edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart and

Li Bennich-Bjrkman.

p. cm.

1. Baltic StatesHistory20th century. 2. Balts (Indo-European people)

History20th century. 3. Balts (Indo-European people)Biography. 4.

Balts (Indo-European people)Interviews. 5. Collective memoryBaltic

States. I. Aarelaid-Tart, Aili. II. Bennich-Bjrkman, Li. DK502.73.

B355 2012

920.0479dc23

2011027430

ISBN: 978-0-415-68110-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-80523-7 (ebk)

Contents

AILI AARELAID-TART AND LI BENNICH-BJRKMAN

VIEDA SKULTANS

BAIBA BELA

MAIJA RUNCIS

KIRSTI JESALU AND ENE KRESAAR

AILI AARELAID-TART

LAURA ASSMUTH

VAIDA OBELEN

HERWIG REITER

RAILI NUGIN AND AIDA HACHATURYAN

INDREK TART

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