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Biographical research in Eastern Europe : altered lives and broken biographies /
- Title
- Biographical research in Eastern Europe : altered lives and broken biographies / edited by Robin Humphrey, Robert Miller, Elena Zdravomyslova.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington [Vt.] : Ashgate, 2003.
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Description
- xvi, 324 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds / Robert Miller, Robin Humphrey and Elena Zdravomyslova -- Pt. 1. The Potential of Biographical Research -- 2. Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography / J. P. Roos -- 3. The Usefulness of Life Stories for a Realist and Meaningful Sociology / Daniel Bertaux -- 4. Three Dimensions of Biographical Narratives / Valery Golofast -- Pt. 2. Communists, Informers and Dissidents -- 5. Estonian-inclined Communists as Marginals / Aili Aarelaid-Tart -- 6. Portrayals of Past and Present Selves in the Life Stories of Former Stasi Informers / Barbara Miller -- 7. Czech Dissidents: A Classically Modern Community / Vladimir Andrle -- 8. Anti-Soviet Biographies: The Dissident Milieu and its Neighbouring Milieux / Sofia Tchouikina -- 9. The Cafe Saigon Tusovka: One Segment of the Informal-public Sphere of Late-Soviet Society / Elena Zdravomyslova -- Pt. 3. Exile, Migration and Adapting to Social Change -- 10. Living the Life: Exile in the Experience of the Polish Intelligentsia / John A. Jackson -- 11. Biographical Continuities and Discontinuities in East-West Migration before and after 1989. Two Case Studies of Migration from Romania to West Germany / Roswitha Breckner -- 12. Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany / Olaf Struck -- 13. Inequality and Exclusion in the History of Poor Slovak Families / Zuzana Kusa -- Pt. 4. Ethnicity and Sexuality -- 14. Different Generations of Leningrad Jews in the Context of Public/Private Division: Paradoxes of Ethnicity / Viktor Voronkov and Elena Chikadze -- 15. Shame, Promiscuity and Social Mobility in Russian Autobiographies from Poor Working-class Milieux / Anna Rotkirch -- 16. The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women's Biographies / Anna Temkina.
- ISBN
- 0754616576
- 9780754616573
- 9781138722187
- 1138722189
- LCCN
- 2002025873
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library