For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.
Author(s): Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch, Mr Paul R Thompson, Paul Thompson
Series: Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 288
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 11
UNDERSTANDING SOVIET SOCIAL STRUCTURES......Page 12
INTERPRETING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORIES......Page 17
NOTES......Page 30
Part I CREATING SOVIET SOCIETY......Page 33
INTRODUCTION......Page 34
The Zamochins......Page 36
THE CHERNOVS......Page 38
THE SECOND SOVIET-BORN GENERATION......Page 41
THE POST-THAW SOVIET GENERATION......Page 45
ANALYSIS......Page 48
THE COMMUNAL/CULTURAL MODEL OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY......Page 49
UNDER STALIN: THE CREATION OF THE SOVIET CULTURAL MODEL......Page 51
THE GRADUAL DISTANCING FROM THE SOVIET MODEL......Page 55
MARKET RELATIONS AND COMMUNAL ETHICS......Page 58
CONCLUSION......Page 59
Notes......Page 61
SOVIET HOUSING POLICY......Page 63
BOURDIEU AND HOUSING AS HABITUS......Page 65
THE STATISTICS OF MOSCOW HOUSING......Page 67
REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF THE KOMMUNALKI: THE OLDER GENERATION......Page 68
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE KOMMUNALKI CHILDREN......Page 73
CONCLUSION......Page 74
Notes......Page 75
4 COPING WITH REVOLUTION......Page 77
Notes......Page 97
Part II PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFE......Page 100
INTRODUCTION......Page 101
‘IS THERE SEX IN RUSSIA?’: THE TWO-SIDED ANSWER......Page 102
SEXUAL POLICY AND SEXUAL GENERATIONS......Page 105
THE GENERATION OF SILENCE......Page 106
CHANNELS OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE GENERATION OF SILENCE......Page 109
THE JOYS OF ART: MAUPASSANT AND MICHELANGELO......Page 110
THE SPLIT GENERATION OF LEARNED IGNORANCE......Page 113
CHANNELS OF SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE GENERATION OF LEARNED IGNORANCE......Page 115
THE GENERATION OF ARTICULATION......Page 117
OPPOSING SHAME......Page 118
CONCLUSION......Page 122
Notes......Page 123
6 FAMILY MODELS AND TRANSGENERATIONAL INFLUENCES......Page 128
FAMILY ATTITUDES TO EDUCATION......Page 130
TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY MODELS......Page 133
AUTHORITY AND ITS MITIGATION: FATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS......Page 135
SUPPRESSING AND TRANSMITTING DANGEROUS FAMILY PASTS......Page 138
FORMS OF FAMILY SOCIALISATION AND ADAPTABILITY TO CHANGE......Page 145
FAMILY UPBRINGING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP......Page 146
CONCLUSION......Page 150
Notes......Page 151
THE UNLIKELY PRIZE CANDIDATE......Page 154
TURNING POINTS AND GENERATIONAL FORMATION......Page 157
THE GENDER CONTRACT OF THE WORKING MOTHER......Page 165
EXTENDED MOTHERING......Page 168
THE ROLE OF BIOLOGICAL PARENTS......Page 170
LOVE AND SELECTIVE TRADITIONALISM......Page 172
WORK—THE FRIENDLY FAMILY......Page 175
CONCLUSIONS......Page 177
Notes......Page 179
(THE STRENGTH OF) IONIN’S THESIS......Page 184
THE SETTING......Page 188
STORIES TOLD AT THE DACHA......Page 192
RE-APPROACHING THE THEORETICAL......Page 196
Notes......Page 198
Part III THE MARGINAL AND THE SUCCESSFUL......Page 201
INTRODUCTION......Page 202
METHOD......Page 204
MEMORY AND HISTORICAL MYTH: OLD BELIEVER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, 1928–32......Page 205
STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL......Page 209
MAINTAINING RELIGIOUS IDENTITY......Page 212
MEETING THE CHALLENGES TO TRADITION......Page 215
CONCLUSION......Page 218
Notes......Page 219
INTRODUCTION......Page 222
METHODOLOGY AND SOURCES......Page 223
SEMEON SAMUILOVICH VILENSKII: PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER6......Page 224
ZOIA DMITRIEVNA MARCHENKO: VULNERABLE SOCIAL STATUS......Page 231
TAMARA DAVIDOVNA RUZHNETSOVA: CAMP CULTURE......Page 233
EVGENII ALEKSANDROVICH EMINOV: FAMILY REUNION......Page 236
ROZA SMUSHKEVICH......Page 237
CONCLUSION......Page 238
Notes......Page 240
11 SUCCESS STORIES FROM THE MARGINS......Page 243
SOME THEORETICAL PREMISES......Page 244
TO READ ‘SUCCESS’......Page 245
FIGHTING THE ENEMIES......Page 248
THE COLLECTIVE OF PROMINENT WOMEN......Page 249
CONSTRUCTING GENDER AND IDENTITY......Page 252
PRODUCING TRUTH AND IDENTITY AS SUCCESS......Page 253
CONTEXTUALISING REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE MEMORY......Page 254
Notes......Page 256
EPILOGUE......Page 260
Notes......Page 264
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 266
INDEX......Page 279
