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Subject(s)

• Europe, Eastern—Biography—History and criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Humphrey, Robin [Browse]
• Miller, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1948- [Browse]
• Zdravomyslova, E. A. [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Biographical Research and Historical Watersheds / Robert Miller, Robin Humphrey and Elena Zdravomyslova
• Pt. 1. The Potential of Biographical Research
• 2. Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: Back to Basics in Autobiography / J. P. Roos
• 3. The Usefulness of Life Stories for a Realist and Meaningful Sociology / Daniel Bertaux
• 4. Three Dimensions of Biographical Narratives / Valery Golofast
• Pt. 2. Communists, Informers and Dissidents
• 5. Estonian-inclined Communists as Marginals / Aili Aarelaid-Tart
• 6. Portrayals of Past and Present Selves in the Life Stories of Former Stasi Informers / Barbara Miller
• 7. Czech Dissidents: A Classically Modern Community / Vladimir Andrle
• 8. Anti-Soviet Biographies: The Dissident Milieu and its Neighbouring Milieux / Sofia Tchouikina
• 9. The Cafe Saigon Tusovka: One Segment of the Informal-public Sphere of Late-Soviet Society / Elena Zdravomyslova
• Pt. 3. Exile, Migration and Adapting to Social Change
• 10. Living the Life: Exile in the Experience of the Polish Intelligentsia / John A. Jackson
• 11. Biographical Continuities and Discontinuities in East-West Migration before and after 1989. Two Case Studies of Migration from Romania to West Germany / Roswitha Breckner
• 12. Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany / Olaf Struck
• 13. Inequality and Exclusion in the History of Poor Slovak Families / Zuzana Kusa
• Pt. 4. Ethnicity and Sexuality
• 14. Different Generations of Leningrad Jews in the Context of Public/Private Division: Paradoxes of Ethnicity / Viktor Voronkov and Elena Chikadze
• 15. Shame, Promiscuity and Social Mobility in Russian Autobiographies from Poor Working-class Milieux / Anna Rotkirch
• 16. The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women's Biographies / Anna Temkina.

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ISBN

• 0754616576 ((alk. paper))
• 9780754616573 ((alk. paper))
• 9781138722187
• 1138722189

LCCN

2002025873

OCLC

49493474

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