Memory, Gender, Silence: Oral history in (Post-)Soviet Russia and the Blurry Line Between the Public and the Private. Summary Cover Image

Память, гендер и молчание: устная история в (пост-)советской России и призрачная грань между публичным и приватным
Memory, Gender, Silence: Oral history in (Post-)Soviet Russia and the Blurry Line Between the Public and the Private. Summary

Author(s): Anika Walke
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Центр независимых социологических исследований (ЦНСИ)

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses methodological and ethical challenges of oral history projects that address experiences of systematic violence. I offer a discussion of the relationship between individual remembering and social discourses about the past, interrogating how this relationship affects the representation of gendered experiences in the Soviet partisan movement during World War II. Utilizing theoretical and methodological approaches to oral history, especially of feminist scholarship, I explore how repercussions of Soviet discourses, namely of restrictions to public and private communication, play out in the construction of portrayals of the past in qualitative interviews.

  • Issue Year: 3/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 137-153
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English