Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers
working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the
witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective
experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to
the development of the field of oral history, where the creation of
the narrative is considered an interaction between the text of the
narrator and the listener. The contributors are particularly
interested in ways in which memory is created and molded. The
interactions of different, even conflicting, memories of other
individuals, and society as a whole are considered. In writing the
history of genocide, "emotional" memory and "objective" research
are interwoven and inseparable. It is as much the historian's task
to decipher witness account, as it is to interpret traditional
written sources. These sometimes antagonistic narratives of memory
fashioned and mobilized within public and private arenas, together
with the ensuing conflicts, paradoxes, and contradictions that they
unleash, are all part of efforts to come to terms with what
happened. Mining memory is the only way in which we can hope to
arrive at a truer, and less biased historical account of events.
Memory is at some level selective. Most believers in political
movements turned out to be the opposite of what they promised. When
given a proper forum, stories that are in opposition to dominant
memories, or in conflict with our own memories, can effectively
battle collective forgetting. This volume offers the reader a
vision of the subjective side of history without falsifying the
objective reality of human survival.
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