Continuity or Discontinuity: On the Dynamics of Remembering “Mature Socialism” in Estonian Post-Soviet Remembrance Culture

Jõesalu, Kirsti; Kõresaar, Ene

doi:10.1080/01629778.2013.775849

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“…Onken, 2010). In a similar spirit, Jõesalu and Kõresaar (2013: 196) note that the identified discourses of ‘rupture’ and ‘continuity/normality’ as applied to the late-Soviet period ‘describe the Soviet experience in different social spheres’ (i.e. public vs private).…”

Section: Silences Within the Social Organisation Of National Memorymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In the words of the current Lithuanian president, Dalia Grybauskaitė (2016), ‘five long decades were ripped away from the one hundred years of our journey by the Soviet occupation which left us with many unhealing wounds’. In turn, within this temporal order, the Soviet occupation becomes a ‘filter of meaning’, operationalised through the lenses of ‘rupture’ and ‘resistance’ as illustrated by Estonian presidential speeches on a national holiday, 24 February (see Jõesalu, 2012; Jõesalu and Kõresaar, 2013: 177; Figure 3). With the whole Soviet period being represented as equally alien, the intra-Soviet differences become trivial.…”

Section: Silences Within the Social Organisation Of National Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Revisitingthe social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Andrejevs

2018

Memory Studies

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This article presents a study of the social organisation of the national memories of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (the Baltic states). It draws inspiration from and expands the scope of the application of Eviatar Zerubavel's largely unexplored methodological tools for the study of calendars. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is threefold. First, this paper offers an application of the above tools to the case of the Baltic states. Second, by doing so it provides an overview of comparative patterns within Baltic calendars. Third, it is argued that by exposing the social organisation of national memory, this approach offers insight into silences, providing an entry point for an engagement with amnesiology, as coined by Liedeke Plate.

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Section: Silences Within the Social Organisation Of National Memorymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Silences Within the Social Organisation Of National Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisitingthe social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Andrejevs

2018

Memory Studies

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“…While the latter can be interpreted as strong 'political rhetoric' (Kauri) or even 'demagogical argument' (Paavo) against neoliberal development, the post-socialist renouncement of the past (Jõesalu and Kõresaar, 2013) also devaluates the idea of non-capitalist options altogether that are dismissed as 'too socialist' (Lauristin and Vihalemm, 2009, p . 20) .…”

Section: Two Development Models: the Question Of Responsibilitymentioning

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The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

Plüschke-Altof

2018

ESR&P

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Recent studies on socio-spatial polarization and post-socialist spaces increasingly propose the use of postcolonial theory. Following this proposal, the paper attempts to make the decolonial approach fruitful for studying the crucial role that discourses play for rural peripheralisation processes in post-socialist Estonia. It shows that the Estonian discourses on peripheries manifest in a struggle between neoliberalism and interventionism as two competing regional development models that promote either self- or state responsibility for dealing with peripheralisation. Despite their differences, both models build on the same notion of modernity, as the colonial history associated with socialist modernity renders alternative models obsolete.

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“…Three strands of scholarship are relevant here. First, scholars have used interviews and conversations to understand how the Soviet and post-Soviet past has been remembered and processed on an everyday level (Jõesalu and Kõresaar, 2013; Raleigh, 2012; Ries, 1997). Second, by analysing the interaction of vernacular memories with public (and semi-public) memories in the form of a television serial and a web forum, this article builds upon a rich current of research (of which this Special Issue is a part) showing how old and new media play an active role in the creation of collective memory.…”

Section: Remembering Kashpirovsky: Modes Social Spheres and Media Ofmentioning

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Remembering a problematic past: TV mystics, perestroika and the 1990s in post-Soviet media and memory

Huxtable

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines memories of the TV psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose TV ‘séances’ were broadcast on Soviet state television in the late-1980s. Based on the results of interviews from Russians and Ukrainians conducted in 2013–2014, a television serial based on the rise of TV mystics in the late-1980s and a web forum devoted to discussion of the serial, this article uses memories of Kashpirovsky in both vernacular and public contexts as a means of understanding the place of perestroika and the 1990s in the post-Soviet historical consciousness. In particular, the article focuses on the continued contestation over the meaning of perestroika and the 1990s in Russian and Ukrainian collective memory and the different interpretative strategies used to explain the past. The article seeks to examine the different forms of memory work taking place in different memory spaces, from the popular, vernacular memories voiced in interviews, to public memories expressed within popular culture.

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Continuity or Discontinuity: On the Dynamics of Remembering “Mature Socialism” in Estonian Post-Soviet Remembrance Culture

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Revisitingthe social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

Revisitingthe social organisation of national memory: A look at the calendars of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

The Question of Responsibility: (De-)Peripheralising Rural Spaces in Post-Socialist Estonia

Remembering a problematic past: TV mystics, perestroika and the 1990s in post-Soviet media and memory

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