The Legacies Of Soviet Repression And Displacement

Author : Samira Saramo,Ulla Savolainen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000893014

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The Legacies of Soviet Repression and Displacement by Samira Saramo,Ulla Savolainen Pdf

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 also 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.

Author : Anne Bazin,Emmanuelle Hébert,Valérie Rosoux,Eric Sangar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000877274

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Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State by Anne Bazin,Emmanuelle Hébert,Valérie Rosoux,Eric Sangar Pdf

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation. It offers a series of case studies of conflict and post-conflict collective memory, shedding light on the ways various actors participate in the production, dissemination, and contestation of memory discourses. With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the book addresses the plurality of diverging, and often conflicting, memory discourses that are produced within the public sphere of a given community. It analyzes the juxtaposition, tensions, and interactions between narratives produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries. The book is structured according to the type of actors involved in a memory fragmentation process. It explores how states have been trying to produce and impose memory discourses on civil societies, sometimes even against the experiences of their own citizens, and how such efforts as well as backlash from actors below and beyond the state have led to horizontal and vertical memory fragmentation. Furthermore, it considers the attempts by states’ representatives to reassert control of national memory discourses and the subsequent resistances they face. As such, this volume will appeal to sociology and political science scholars interested in memory studies in post-conflict societies.

Author : Otto Boele,Boris Noordenbos,Ksenia Robbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000507294

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Post-Soviet Nostalgia by Otto Boele,Boris Noordenbos,Ksenia Robbe Pdf

Bringing together scholars from Russia, the United States and Europe, this collection of essays is the first to explore the slippery phenomenon of post-Soviet nostalgia by studying it as a discursive practice serving a wide variety of ideological agendas. The authors demonstrate how feelings of loss and displacement in post-Soviet Russia are turned into effective tools of state building and national mobilization, as well as into weapons for local resistance and the assertion of individual autonomy. Drawing on novels, memoirs, documentaries, photographs and Soviet commodities, Post-Soviet Nostalgia is an invaluable resource for historians, literary scholars and anthropologists interested in how Russia comes to terms with its Soviet past.

Author : Christopher McDowell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527546479

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Kyrgyzstan and the Legacies of Collectivisation by Christopher McDowell Pdf

This book argues that the early twentieth century Soviet Russian occupation and rule of the Central Asian territory that became Kyrgyzstan was made possible by collectivisation and forcible population displacement. The rural transformation brought about by the seizure of private and community owned assets, the ending of pastoralism as a livelihood system, and the corralling of people on to collective and state farms were pivotal strategies of colonisation. Evictions, involuntary resettlement and immigration reconfigured the population and enabled largely non-Kyrgyz rule. As the book describes, the dramatic changes wrought by Sovietisation required force and coercion, which were met with resistance and non-compliance. More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent Kyrgyzstan continues to struggle with the legacies of Soviet rule. The book explores how the dismantling of collectivisation and the command economy failed to resist the rise of authoritarian, populist and nationalist politics, combined with economic stagnation and ethnic conflict.

Author : Tomas Balkelis,Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004314108

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Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century by Tomas Balkelis,Violeta Davoliūtė Pdf

Population Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies offers an account on how two world wars produced a series of population displacements in Lithuania in the course of the 20th century.

Author : Huseyn Aliyev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137489159

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Post-Communist Civil Society and the Soviet Legacy by Huseyn Aliyev Pdf

This book argues that the weakness of civil society in the post-Soviet Caucasus is a result not only of post-communist political and economic problems, but also of the effects of historical legacies. These influence both formal and informal civil societies and weaken the countries' ability to facilitate democratisation.

Author : Mark Beissinger,Director of Russian Studies Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322066779

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Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe by Mark Beissinger,Director of Russian Studies Stephen Kotkin Pdf

Elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies of communism, revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities.

Author : Christina Pauls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3991060264

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Re-storying a Past that Lies Between Us by Christina Pauls Pdf

Author : Celia Donert,Eve Rosenhaft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000511031

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The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe since 1945 by Celia Donert,Eve Rosenhaft Pdf

This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled as ‘Gypsies’ were persecuted or killed in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. In many places, discrimination continued after the war was over. The chapters in this volume ask how these experiences shaped the lives of Romani survivors and their families in eastern and western Europe since 1945. This book will appeal to researchers and students in Modern European History, Romani Studies, and the history of genocide and the Holocaust.

Author : Karl Cordell,Timofey Agarin,Alexander Osipov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Minorities
ISBN : OCLC:885212620

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Institutional Legacies of Communism by Karl Cordell,Timofey Agarin,Alexander Osipov Pdf

Author : Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691006733

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The Tenacity of Ethnicity by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer Pdf

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although First Nations, indigenous peoples, have often been victims of expansionist state-building, Balzer shows that processes of acquiring ethnic identity can involve transcending victimhood. She brings Khanty views of their history and current life into focus, revealing multiple levels of cultural activism. She argues that anthropological theory and practice can derive from indigenous insights, and should help indigenous peoples. Balzer brings to life the saga of the Khanty over several centuries. She analyzes trends in Siberian ethnic interaction that strongly affected minority lives: colonization, Christianization, revitalization, Sovietization, and regionalization. These processes incorporate suprastate and state politics, including recent devastations stemming from the energy industry's land thefts. Balzer documents changes that might seem to foreshadow the demise of indigenous ethnicity. Yet the final chapters reveal ways some Khanty have preserved cultural values and dignity in crisis. Khanty identity has varied with the politics of individuals, groups, and generations. It has been shaped by recent grass-roots mobilization, ecological activism, and religious revival, as well as older historical memory, language-based solidarity, and loyalty to a homeland. The Tenacity of Ethnicity demonstrates how at each historical turn, Siberian experiences shed new light on old debates concerning colonialism, conversion, revitalization, ethnicity, and nationalism. This volume will be important for political scientists, historians, and regional specialists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists.

Author : Giovanna Zincone,Rinus Penninx,Maren Borkert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089643704

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Migration Policymaking in Europe by Giovanna Zincone,Rinus Penninx,Maren Borkert Pdf

Deze studie ontwikkelt een geheel nieuwe benadering van het vraagstuk: Hoe wordt migratie- en integratiebeleid in tien Europese landen gemaakt? Wie is daarbij betrokken? Welke invloed hebben wetenschappers en maatschappelijke partners op de vorming en uitvoering van beleid? De auteurs concluderen dat beleid begrepen moet worden als resultaat van nationale historische verhoudingen en opvattingen binnen nationale contexten enerzijds, en anderzijds ontstaan is onder invloed van wereldwijde en supra-nationale invloeden.

Author : Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319770697

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Eastern Europe in 1968 by Kevin McDermott,Matthew Stibbe Pdf

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Countries covered include the Soviet Union and specific Soviet republics (Ukraine, Moldavia, the Baltic States), together with two chapters on Czechoslovakia and one each on East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia and Albania. The individual contributions explain why most of these communist regimes opposed Alexander Dubček’s reforms and supported the Soviet-led military intervention in August 1968, and why some stood apart. They also explore public reactions in Eastern Europe to the events of 1968, including instances of popular opposition to the crushing of the Prague Spring, expressions of loyalty to Soviet-style socialism, and cases of indifference or uncertainty. Among the many complex legacies of the East European ‘1968’ was the development of new ways of thinking about regional identity, state borders, de-Stalinisation and the burdens of the past.

Author : Steven A. Barnes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400838615

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Death and Redemption by Steven A. Barnes Pdf

Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instruments of genocide. In this provocative book, Steven Barnes argues that the Gulag must be understood primarily as a penal institution where prisoners were given one final chance to reintegrate into Soviet society. Millions whom authorities deemed "reeducated" through brutal forced labor were allowed to leave. Millions more who "failed" never got out alive. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. He takes readers into the Gulag itself, focusing on one outpost of the Gulag system in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, a location that featured the full panoply of Soviet detention institutions. Barnes traces the Gulag experience from its beginnings after the 1917 Russian Revolution to its decline following the 1953 death of Stalin. Death and Redemption reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who would be excluded through death.

Author : Jaimey Fisher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135704

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Generic Histories of German Cinema by Jaimey Fisher Pdf

Offers a fresh approach to German film studies by tracing key genres -- including horror, the thriller, Heimat films, and war films -- over the course of German cinema history