This book explores the ways in which memories of Stalin-era
repression and displacement manifest across times and places
through diverse forms of materialization. The chapters of the book
explore the concrete mobilities of life stories, letters, memoirs,
literature, objects, and bodies reflecting Soviet repression and
violence across borders of geographical locations, historical
periods, and affective landscapes. These spatial, temporal, and
psychological shifts are explored further as processes of textual
circulation and mediation. By offering novel multi-sited and
multi-media analyses of the creative, political, societal,
cultural, and intimate implications of remembrance, the collection
contributes fresh interdisciplinary perspectives to both the field
of memory studies and the study of Soviet repression. The case
studies in this collection focus on the personal, autobiographical,
and intimate representations, experiences, and practices related to
the remembrance of Stalinist repression and displacement as they
are mediated through memoirs, fiction, interviews, and versatile
commemorative practices. Taken together, the book asks: what
happens to memories, life stories, testimonies, and experiences
when they travel in time and space and between media and are
(re)interpreted and (re)formulated through these transfers? What
kinds of memorial forms are gained through processes of mediation?
What types of spaces for remembering, telling, and feeling are
created, negotiated, and contested through these shifts? What are
the boundaries and intersections of intimate, familial, community,
national, and transnational memories? By analytically
contextualizing the various case studies within broader memory
discourses in a range of geographical and political contexts, the
book offers rich and multilayered interpretations of the enduring
ramifications of communist repression. The collection demonstrates
that these multiply moving memories not only reflect Eastern
European memory culture but reach far beyond and have transnational
and transgenerational significance. As such, this timely book will
be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the former
Soviet Union or memory studies more broadly.
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