The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present: Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European...

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Melanie Ilic Dalia Leinarte

The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present

Methodology and Ethics in Russian, Baltic and Central European Oral History and Memory Studies...

Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte

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English

Routledge
22 March 2019

European history; Oral history; Religion: general

Series: Routledge Approaches to History

"This collection examines practical and ethical issues inherent in the application of oral history and memory studies to research about the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Case studies highlight the importance of ethical good practice, including the reflexive interrogation of the interviewer and researcher, and aspects of gender and national identity.

Researchers use oral history to analyze present-day recollections of the Soviet past, thereby extending our understanding beyond archival records, official rhetoric and popular mythology. Oral history explores individual life stories, but this has sometimes resulted in rather incomplete, incoherent, inconsistent or illogical narratives. Oral history, therefore, presents the researcher with a number of methodological and ethical dilemmas, including the interpretation of ""silence"" in biographical accounts.

This collection links the discussion of oral history ethics with that of memory studies. Memories are shaped by factors that may be, simultaneously, both consecutive and disrupted. In written accounts and responses to interview questions, respondents sometimes display nostalgia for the Soviet past, or, conversely, may seek to de-mythologize the realities of Soviet rule. Case studies explore what to do when interview subjects and memoirists consciously, sub-consciously or unconsciously ""forget"" aspects of their own past, or themselves seek to take control of the research process."

Edited by: Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367263836
ISBN 10: 0367263831
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 22 March 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, The University of Birmingham, UK. Dalia Leinarte is Professor of History and Director of the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK.