Synopses & Reviews
International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories is a new series which aims to increase our understanding of the recent past and the changing present. It sets out to present and interpret autobiographical testimony, whether in the form of written autobiography, oral history, or life-story interviews. Edited by an international group of leading scholars, the
International Yearbook is genuinely interdisciplinary and intellectually stimulating, with much to offer students in many areas, including history, sociology, literature, psychology, and anthropology. Each issue will form a coherent volume focusing on a single theme.
Memory And Totalitarianism explores the remembered experience of individuals living under different totalitarian regimes, and examines the construction of memory in the aftermath of their collapse. Luisa Passerini, Special Editor of this volume, contributes an Introduction which underlines the fundamental importance of the struggle for memory and its meaning.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Antagonistic Memories: The Post-War Survival and Alienation of Jews and Germans
2. Where Were You on 17 June? A Niche in Memory
3. A German Generation of Reconstruction: The children of the Weimar Republic in the GDR
4. After Glasnost: Oral History in the Soviet Union
5. The Gulag in Memory
6. The Abduction of Imre Nagy and his Group: The "Rashomon Effect"
7. Mujeres Libres: The Preservation of Memory under the Politics of Repression in Spain
8. A Shattered Silence: The Life Stories of Survivors of the Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam
9. Don't Forget: Fragments of a Negative Tradition