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(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War

(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War

Millei, Zsuzsa
Piattoeva, Nelli
Silova, Iveta

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Child PsychologyGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 180511185X
ISBN13: 9781805111856
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: Apr 22 2024
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an 'anarchive': a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures―and the past's futures―what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become.

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