Biographical research in Eastern Europe
| Titel: | Biographical research in Eastern Europe : altered lives and broken biographies / ed. by Robin Humphrey ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Aldershot : Ashgate, 2003 |
| Umfang: | XVI, 324 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0754616576 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. viii
- Notes on Contributors
- p. xi
- 1
- Introduction: Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds
- p. 1
- Part 1
- The Potential of Biographical Research
- 2
- Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography
- p. 27
- 3
- The Usefulness of Life Stories for a Realist and Meaningful Sociology
- p. 39
- 4
- Three Dimensions of Biographical Narratives
- p. 53
- Part 2
- Communists, Informers and Dissidents
- 5
- Estonian-inclined Communists as Marginals
- p. 71
- 6
- Portrayals of Past and Present Selves in the Life Stories of Former Stasi Informers
- p. 101
- 7
- Czech Dissidents: A Classically Modern Community
- p. 115
- 8
- Anti-Soviet Biographies: The Dissident Milieu and its Neighbouring Milieux
- p. 129
- 9
- The Cafe Saigon Tusovka: One Segment of the Informal-public Sphere of Late-Soviet Society
- p. 141
- Part 3
- Exile, Migration and Adapting to Social Change
- 10
- Living the Life: Exile in the Experience of the Polish Intelligentsia
- p. 181
- 11
- Biographical Continuities and Discontinuities in East-West Migration before and after 1989. Two Case Studies of Migration from Romania to West Germany
- p. 191
- 12
- Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany
- p. 211
- 13
- Inequality and Exclusion in the History of Poor Slovak Families
- p. 225
- Part 4
- Ethnicity and Sexuality
- 14
- Different Generations of Leningrad Jews in the Context of Public/Private Division: Paradoxes of Ethnicity
- p. 239
- 15
- Shame, Promiscuity and Social Mobility in Russian Autobiographies from Poor Working-class Milieux
- p. 263
- 16
- The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women's Biographies
- p. 299
- Index
- p. 321
