{"product_id":"guardians-of-living-history-inge-melchior-9789462989023","title":"Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, this book shows that many Estonians desire an established collective story, as they live in a society where their national identity is quite regularly under threat. At the same time however, that same closure is perceived to pose a threat to the survival of Estonian culture and independence. \u003ci\u003eGuardians of Living History\u003c\/i\u003e provides an intimate insight into the lives of Estonians from the countryside, former deportees, young intellectuals, and memory activists, who all in their own ways act as guardians of a national history: a history which they wish to keep alive, apolitical, and as close to their family stories as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Inge Melchior\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9462989028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789462989023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Inge Melchior","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48137017032959,"sku":"9789462989023","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7250943-bfc0-4965-ab63-c71135fc133d.jpg?v=1770165988","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/guardians-of-living-history-inge-melchior-9789462989023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}