Uniform Title Maps of memory Title Narratives of exile and identity : Soviet deportation memoirs from the Baltic States / edited by Violeta Davoliūte, Tomas Balkelis

Published Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Experience of Deportation; A Soviet Story: Mass Deportation, Isolation, Return; Ethnicity and Identity in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Children Deported to the Gulag; Homeless Forever: Home and Homelessness among Deportees from Estonia; Official and Individual Perceptions: Squaring the History of Soviet Deportations with the Circle of Testimony in Latvia; Part II: Commemoration and Transference of the Memory of Deportation Gendering "History of Fighting and Suffering": War and Deportation in the Narratives of Women Resistance Fighters in Lithuania"We Are All Deportees." The Trauma of Displacement and the Consolidation of National Identity during the Popular Movement in Lithuania; Hegemony or Grassroots Movement? The Musealization of Soviet Deportations; Breaking the Silence? Contradiction and Consistency in Representing Victimhood in Baltic Museums of Occupations; Bibliography; Index; List of Contributors; Back cover Summary In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives Notes Revised and expanded version of Maps of memory : trauma, identity and exile in deportation memoirs from the Baltic States Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2018) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Deportations from Baltic States World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Balts (Indo-European people) Deportees -- Baltic States -- Biography Collective memory -- Baltic States Balts (Indo-European people) -- Crimes against -- Russia (Federation) -- 20th century -- History -- Sources Political persecution -- Baltic States -- 20th century -- History -- Sources Political persecution -- Russia (Federation) -- 20th century -- History -- Sources Baltic States 1900 - 1999. HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th century. Collective memory Deportees Political persecution Baltic States Russia (Federation) Genre/Form Personal narratives Biographies History Sources Personal narratives. Biographies. Récits personnels. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Davoliūtė, Violeta, 1967- editor. Balkelis, Tomas, editor LC no. 2017000889 ISBN 9789633861844 9633861845

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