Narratives of Exile and Identity: Soviet Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States

Table of Contents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgements\nForeword\nIntroduction\nPart I: Experience of Deportation\nA Soviet Story: Mass Deportation, Isolation, Return\nEthnicity and Identity in the Memoirs of Lithuanian Children Deported to the Gulag\nHomeless Forever: Home and Homelessness among Deportees from Estonia\nOfficial and Individual Perceptions: Squaring the History of Soviet Deportations with the Circle of Testimony in Latvia\nPart II: Commemoration and Transference of the Memory of Deportation\nGendering “History of Fighting and Suffering”: War and Deportation in the Narratives of Women Resistance Fighters in Lithuania\n“We Are All Deportees.” The Trauma of Displacement and the Consolidation of National Identity during the Popular Movement in Lithuania\nHegemony or Grassroots Movement? The Musealization of Soviet Deportations\nBreaking the Silence? Contradiction and Consistency in Representing Victimhood in Baltic Museums of Occupations\nBibliography\nBibliography\nList of Contributors