Guardians of Living History An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia /
Melchior, Inge,
Guardians of Living History An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia / Inge Melchior. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, (c)2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000. - 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. - Heritage and memory studies .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : persisting pasts in the margins of Europe -- Making an emotional 'history of the people' -- On the margins of history : good old Soviet times -- Personal memories becoming national history -- Postmemory : the inherited obligation to secure the future -- Committed to the past : memory activists in search of dignity and justice -- WWII on the periphery of Europe : a contested chapter -- Conclusion : guardians of living history.
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.
9789048541430 9048541433
National characteristics, Estonian.
Post-communism--Estonia.
Collective memory--Estonia.
Estonians.
Electronic Books.
DK503 / .G837 2020
Guardians of Living History An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia / Inge Melchior. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, (c)2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000. - 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. - Heritage and memory studies .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : persisting pasts in the margins of Europe -- Making an emotional 'history of the people' -- On the margins of history : good old Soviet times -- Personal memories becoming national history -- Postmemory : the inherited obligation to secure the future -- Committed to the past : memory activists in search of dignity and justice -- WWII on the periphery of Europe : a contested chapter -- Conclusion : guardians of living history.
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.
9789048541430 9048541433
National characteristics, Estonian.
Post-communism--Estonia.
Collective memory--Estonia.
Estonians.
Electronic Books.
DK503 / .G837 2020