Voices of Collective Remembering

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction and Acknowledgments......Page 9
1 An Encounter with Collective Memory......Page 12
Sociocultural Analysis......Page 18
Basic Terms in the Study of Collective Remembering as a Form of Mediated Action......Page 21
Text......Page 22
Voice......Page 23
Remembering......Page 25
The Historically Laminated Meanings of “Collective Memory”......Page 26
Strong and Distributed Versions of Collective Memory......Page 28
The Strong Version of Collective Memory......Page 29
The Distributed Version of Collective Memory......Page 31
The Mediation of Collective Memory......Page 32
Memory......Page 38
Collective Memory......Page 41
Collective Memory vs. Individual Memory......Page 43
Collective Memory vs. History......Page 48
Change in Collective Memory and History......Page 51
Remembering vs. Re-experiencing......Page 54
Episodic vs. Instrumental Collective Memory......Page 59
Narratives as Cultural Tools......Page 63
The Referential and Dialogic Functions of Narratives......Page 65
Specific Narratives and Schematic Narrative Templates......Page 68
Textual Community......Page 70
Implicit and Imagined Communities......Page 71
Summary......Page 73
State Production of Official Texts about the Past......Page 75
Education in History or Collective Memory?......Page 78
The Production of a Univocal Official Collective Memory in the Soviet Union......Page 80
The Emergence of a Unitary Voice in the Production of Official Collective Memory......Page 82
Successive Sole Truths about the Past......Page 84
Soviet Schools and the Production of Univocal Collective Memory......Page 90
State Production of Textual Mediation for Official Collective Memory......Page 93
5 Narrative Dialogicality and Narrative Templates in the Production of Official Collective Memory......Page 95
The Transition in Collective Remembering: Unleashing the Struggle over the Past in Post-Soviet Russia......Page 96
Forces of Change: Narrative Dialogicality......Page 98
Forces of Continuity: The Triumph-Over-Alien-Forces Schematic Narrative Template......Page 101
Soviet and Post-Soviet History Textbooks and Instruction......Page 105
Soviet Narratives of the Russian Civil War: Foreign and Domestic Enemies in the Triumph-Over-Alien-Forces Narrative Template......Page 107
Post-Soviet Russian Accounts of the Civil War: A Counter-Narrative of Tragedy......Page 109
Soviet Accounts of World War II: The Party as Hero in the Triumph-Over-Alien-Forces Narrative Template......Page 113
Post-Soviet Russian Accounts of World War II: Russian People as Hero in the Triumph-Over-Alien-Forces Narrative Template......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 120
Appendix A: Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Secondary School History Textbooks Used in Analyses of the Russian Civil War......Page 123
Appendix B: Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Secondary School History Textbooks Used in Analyses of World War II......Page 124
6 The Consumption of Historical Narratives......Page 125
Mastery and Appropriation of Textual Means......Page 127
Contextual Control of Narrative Texts......Page 131
The Control of Narrative Information......Page 132
Control of Doubt about Official Narratives......Page 133
Control of Knowledge from Competing Narratives......Page 137
The Control of Narrative Performance......Page 140
Public and Private Spheres of Discourse in Soviet Life......Page 144
Public and Private Performance, Double Consciousness, and Internal Emigration......Page 146
Internal Emigration from a Totalitarian State......Page 150
The Fear Associated with Internal Emigration......Page 151
Resistance Activities Associated with Internal Emigration......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 155
7 Generational Differences in Collective Remembering......Page 157
Mastery of the Textual Means for Collective Remembering......Page 160
Appropriation of the Textual Means of Collective Remembering......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 179
References......Page 187
Index......Page 199