Overview
- Provides a microhistory of two Romanian villages during the last two decades of socialist rule
- Explores the relationships among residents, visitors, and the authorities
- Interrogates a wide range of sources, from state archives to oral history interviews
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea
Authors: Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35799-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35798-5Published: 07 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35801-2Due: 07 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35799-2Published: 05 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 265
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, History of Modern Europe, Oral History