Remembering Soviet Food Culture
Experiences of a Memory Community in Estonia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21802506 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ester Bardone (0000-0003-1361-0767), A Kannike (0000-0002-3087-9314) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 137-164 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Food and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1780-3187 • E-ISSN: 2034-2101 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.food.5.122032 |
| OpenAlex | W3126675186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The article contributes to the life history and narrative research on collective memory, addressing how the food culture of mature socialism in Estonia was remembered by a particular memory community (people born in the 1920s-1940s) in the postsocialist situation (early 2000s). Both pre-war society in the independent Republic of Estonia and the postsocialist era became the lenses through which food practices of Soviet Estonia were interpreted. These memories shed light on some nationally specific ways of remembering Soviet food culture, most clearly expressed in seeing the continuity of pre-WWII practices and in symbolic distinctions between “our” and “their” food culture. The study also demonstrates how memory institutions (Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum) have influenced the ways of remembering as well as the structure and content of memories
Collective memory · Economic history · Estonian · Linguistics · Political science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |