Narrating Surroundings and Suppression

The Role of School in Soviet Childhood Memories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7770482
AutoresRaili Nugin (0000-0003-1428-5724, Tallinn University, autor correspondente), Kirsti Jõesalu (0000-0003-1756-047X, University of Tartu)
Ano2016
Volume48
Fascículo3
Páginas203-219
Data de publicação2016-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1056-4934 • E-ISSN: 1944-7086
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10564934.2016.1208051
OpenAlexW2524499386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas35

The article explores how people born in Estonia in the 1970s contextualize their memories about their Soviet childhood in the context of school. Focusing on small group of people who grew up in the Soviet Estonia, we argue that in biographical narratives, school is treated as the representative of the Soviet regime. Nostalgic reminiscences from childhood embrace both commitment and resistance to the regime. The hegemonic framework of repression discourse is often flexibly stretched, embracing sometimes ironic stories of disobedience as resistance or commitment as play. Rather than opposing the official discourse, they create playful side-meanings about the era

Art · Hegemony · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration