Guardians of Living History An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Melchior, Inge, author.
Imprint:	Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020
Description:	1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Heritage and memory studies Heritage and memory studies. Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	National characteristics, Estonian. Post-communism -- Estonia. Collective memory -- Estonia. Post-communism. Civilization. Collective memory. National characteristics, Estonian. Estonia -- Civilization. Estonia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12543187

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN:	9789048541430 9048541433 9789462989023
Notes:	Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Description based on print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9789462989023
Standard no.:	10.1515/9789048541430.

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