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The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present

This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive interrogation of the interviewer and researcher and aspects of gender and national identity.

Researchers use oral history to analyze present-day recollections of the Soviet past, thereby extending our understanding beyond archival records, official rhetoric and popular mythology. Oral history explores individual life stories, but this has sometimes resulted in rather incomplete, incoherent, inconsistent or illogical narratives. Oral history, therefore, presents the researcher with a number of methodological and ethical dilemmas, including the interpretation of silence in biographical accounts.

This book links the discussion of oral history ethics with that of memory studies. Memories are shaped by factors that may be, simultaneously, both consecutive and disrupted. In written accounts and responses to interview questions, respondents sometimes display nostalgia for the Soviet past or, conversely, may seek to de-mythologise the realities of Soviet rule. Case studies explore what to do when interview subjects and memoirists consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously forget aspects of their own past or themselves seek to take control of the research process.

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, The University of Birmingham, UK.

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History and Director of the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present

Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies

Edited by Melanie Ilic and Dalia Leinarte

The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present

Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies

Edited by Melanie Ilic and Dalia Leinarte

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ISBN: 978-1-138-93345-3 (hbk)
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Contents

Melanie Ilic

Dalia Leinarte

Part I
Russia

Barbara Engel

Yulia Gradskova

Laura J. Olson

Part II
Baltic States

Ingrida Geien

Sigita Kraniauskien and Laima ilinskien

Leena Kurvet-Kosaar

Andrejs Plakans

Maija Runcis

Aurimas vedas

Part III
East-Central Europe

Ildik Asztalos Morell

Kelly Hignett

Karolina Koziura and Olena Lytovka, with Melanie Ilic

Ateitininkai	[early twentieth-century Lithuanian] Catholic youth movement
babka	old woman
blat	the economy of favours; informal agreements; exchange of services; payment of bribes
boikaya	feisty
chastushka/chastushki	humorous folk verse/s
defitsit	deficit; shortages
dzvesststs	[Latvian] life stories
Eesti Naisliit	Estonian Womens League
EKLA	Eesti Kultuurilooline Arhiiv; Estonian Cultural History Archives
EU	European Union
geguins	[Lithuanian] outdoor parties; picnics
glasnost	[Gorbachevs policy of] openness [in the late 1980s]
GYES	Gyermekgondozsi segly; [Hungarian] three-year paid child-care subsidy
KGB	Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; Committee of State Security
Klaip da Days	public holidays [in Lithuania]
kolkhoz	collective farm
Komsomol	League of Young Communists
kulak	wealthy peasant
NATO	North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NKVD	Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennykh Del; Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs
NMV	[Latvian] Nacion l s mutv rdu v stures projekts; National Oral History Project
perestroika	[Gorbachevs policy of] restructuring [in the late 1980s]
Pioneers	Communist Party organisation for children
porcha	spoiling, damage
prazdniki

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