Guardians of living history : an ethnography of Post-Soviet memory making in Estonia

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Guardians of living history : an ethnography of Post-Soviet memory making in Estonia

Title remainder

an ethnography of Post-Soviet memory making in Estonia

Statement of responsibility

Inge Melchior

Creator

• Melchior, Inge

Subject

• Collective memory -- Estonia
• Estonia -- Civilization
• National characteristics, Estonian
• Post-communism -- Estonia

Language

eng

Summary

Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, this book shows that many Estonians desire an established collective story, as they live in a society where their national identity is quite regularly under threat. At the same time however, that same closure is perceived to pose a threat to the survival of Estonian culture and independence. Guardians of Living History provides an intimate insight into the lives of Estonians from the countryside, former deportees, young intellectuals, and memory activists, who all in their own ways act as guardians of a national history: a history which they wish to keep alive, apolitical, and as close to their family stories as possible.--

Member of

• Heritage and memory studies

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Provided by publisher

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Heritage and memory studies
• JSTOR eBooks