The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present - Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies (Hardcover)

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 collection 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-mythologize the realities of Soviet rule. Case studies explore what to do when interview subjects and memoirists consciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously "forget" aspects of their own past, or themselves seek to take control of the research process.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Approaches to History
Release date:	July 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Melanie Ili c • Dalia Leinarte
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-93345-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-93345-7
Barcode:	9781138933453

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