Martinez, Francisco;
(2018)
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia.
[Book].
Fringe.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field. The anthropological study of all these places shows that national identity and historical representations can be constructed in relation to waste and disrepair too, also demonstrating how we can understand generational change in a material sense.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787353534 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787353534 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787353534 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Francisco Martínez, 2018 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2018 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Martínez, F. 2018. Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia: An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787353534 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Estonia, Communism, Eastern Europe, Soviet |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051631 |
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