ON THE VERGE OF HISTORY : life stories of rural women from serbia, romania, and hungary, 1920-2020.
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IBIDEM-VERLAG HAUNSCHILD,
2022.
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| Series: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword. About the Significance of Stories
- Introduction. Memories of Change in Central Europe
- Thirty Women-Three Countries
- Women's Life Stories as Historical Sources
- Oral History and the Narrative Approach: Praxis and Theory
- 1 Dis/connections. Memories of Childhood and the Interwar Period
- "And then this Trianon-thing came ... ": The 1920 Treaty of Trianon in Memories
- Scene from Childhood: The "Horthy Era" and "Old Yugo" (1920-1941/1944)
- Religious Education: Narrating the Political in Childhood Stories
- Summary
- 2 Dance Lessons, Balls and Bullets. Memories of Adolescence and the Second World War
- The Happiest and Most Terrible Time
- Periodization Through Two Turning Points
- Russian Soldier, German Soldier
- Mothers and Daughters
- Summary
- 3 Progress or Stagnation? Remembering Adulthood in Socialism
- Collectivization Narratives
- Stories of Survival and Personal Advancement
- Motherhood and the State
- Socialist Nostalgia
- Socialism in a Narrative of Stagnation
- Summary
- 4 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Ethnicity in the Voices of Minority Women
- The Legacy of Nazism in Personal Memories: Erasure and Ethnicization of a Regime
- "Clean as a glass": The Racialization of Difference
- Summary
- 5 Change and Continuity. Stories of Retirement, Old Age and the 1989 Transitions
- Rupture: Retiring during the Time of Transitions-A Personal Decision
- Continuity: Work during Retirement
- Summary
- 6 A Different Way of History-Telling. Home and Movement in Women's Narratives
- Home as "Greater Hungary": Nostalgia for the Lost Land
- Home as Community: Nostalgia for the Federation
- Home as Movement
- Summary
- 7 "Now we are laughing but back then ... ". Humour and Performative Laughter
- Summary
- Conclusions. Divided Memories of a Generation
- Bibliography
