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Baltic biographies at historical crossroads [electronic resource] / edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Bjáeorkman.

Contributor(s): Bennich-Bjáeorkman, Li | Aarelaid, AiliMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies ; 14.Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012. Description: xviii, 214 pISBN: 9780203805237 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Balts (Indo-European people) -- History -- 20th century | Balts (Indo-European people) -- Biography | Balts (Indo-European people) -- Interviews | Collective memory -- Baltic States | Baltic States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.
Contents:
1. Introduction : on living through the twentieth century in the Baltic states / Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Bjáeorkman -- 2. Locating memory within history : Baltic lives in their context / Vieda Skultans -- 3. Everyday life, power, and agency in turbulent Latvia : the story of Otto Irbe / Baiba Bela -- 4. The collective strategies of Latvian Second World War refugees adapting to Swedish society / Maija Runcis -- 5. Working through mature socialism : private and public in the life story of an Estonian industry manager / Kirsti Jèaoesalu and Ene Kèaoresaar -- 6. Let me tell you a sad story : Soviet Russian immigrants in independent Estonia / Aili Aarelaid-Tart -- 7. Rural belongings : Baltic Russian identities in Estonian and Latvian borderlands / Laura Assmuth -- 8. Exit from communism : career decisions of the Lithuanian young communist functionaries / Vaida Obelenðce -- 9. Catching up with the west? : an insider's perspective from Lithuania / Herwig Reiter -- 10. Mobilizing capitals during transitions : the stories of Toomas and Nikolai / Raili Nugin and Aida Hachaturyan -- 11. Background for biographical research : value change in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden in 1991-2007 / Indrek Tart.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : on living through the twentieth century in the Baltic states / Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Bjáeorkman -- 2. Locating memory within history : Baltic lives in their context / Vieda Skultans -- 3. Everyday life, power, and agency in turbulent Latvia : the story of Otto Irbe / Baiba Bela -- 4. The collective strategies of Latvian Second World War refugees adapting to Swedish society / Maija Runcis -- 5. Working through mature socialism : private and public in the life story of an Estonian industry manager / Kirsti Jèaoesalu and Ene Kèaoresaar -- 6. Let me tell you a sad story : Soviet Russian immigrants in independent Estonia / Aili Aarelaid-Tart -- 7. Rural belongings : Baltic Russian identities in Estonian and Latvian borderlands / Laura Assmuth -- 8. Exit from communism : career decisions of the Lithuanian young communist functionaries / Vaida Obelenðce -- 9. Catching up with the west? : an insider's perspective from Lithuania / Herwig Reiter -- 10. Mobilizing capitals during transitions : the stories of Toomas and Nikolai / Raili Nugin and Aida Hachaturyan -- 11. Background for biographical research : value change in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden in 1991-2007 / Indrek Tart.

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