In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their representation? Do various ethnic groups remember the past differently: how do they use historical and cultural paradigms to structure their experience in unique ways? The scholars researched the archives, read testimonies, interviewed former deportees, and examined artifacts of memory produced since the late 1980s, applying crossdisciplinary approaches used at the study of the Holocaust testimonies; the testimonies of women have received a particular emphasis. The essays in the book also examine the issues of transmittance, commemoration and public uses of the memory of deportations in contemporary social, cultural and political contexts of Baltic societies, including the reflection of Gulag legacy in literature, the cinema and museums.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I: Experience of Deportation
- A Soviet Story: Mass Deportation, Isolation, Return
- Ethnicity and Identity in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Children Deported to the Gulag
- Homeless Forever: Home and Homelessness among Deportees from Estonia
- Official and Individual Perceptions: Squaring the History of Soviet Deportations with the Circle of Testimony in Latvia
- Part II: Commemoration and Transference of the Memory of Deportation
- Gendering “History of Fighting and Suffering”: War and Deportation in the Narratives of Women Resistance Fighters in Lithuania
- “We Are All Deportees.” The Trauma of Displacement and the Consolidation of National Identity during the Popular Movement in Lithuania
- Hegemony or Grassroots Movement? The Musealization of Soviet Deportations
- Breaking the Silence? Contradiction and Consistency in Representing Victimhood in Baltic Museums of Occupations
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors
- Back cover
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