1st Edition
Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads
1. Introduction: on living through the Twentieth century in the Baltic States by Aili Aarelaid-Tart and Li Bennich-Björkman 2. Locating memory within history: Baltic lives in their context by Vieda Skultans 3. Everyday life, power and agency in Soviet Latvia by Baiba Bela 4. Before we return home: the collective strategies of Latvian World War II refugees adapting to Swedish Society by Maija Runcis 5. Working through mature Socialism: private and public in the Estonians' meaning-making of the Soviet past by Kirsti Jõesalu & Ene Kõresaar 6. Tell me Your story – Russians in Independent Estonia by Aili Aarelaid-Tart 7. Discussing ethnic identities with Russian-speakers in rural Estonia and Latvia by Laura Assmuth 8. Exit from communism: career decisions of the Lithuanian young Communist functionaries by Vaida Obelenė 9. Catching up with the West? An insider’s perspective from Lithuania by Herwig Reiter 10. Mobilizing capitals during transitions – the stories of Toomas and Nikolai by Raili Nugin and Aida Hachatyrian 11. Basic human values’ dynamics and biographical findings by Indrek Tart
Biography
Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Li Bennich-Björkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.
