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urn:uuid:9373214b-3c69-444d-9635-da04e393d66a 03 01 01 urn:uuid:9373214b-3c69-444d-9635-da04e393d66a 15 9781805111887 06 10.11647/OBP.0383 00 EB E101 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 (An)Archive Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War 1 B01 21 0000-0003-4681-6024 Zsuzsa Millei 2 B01 21 0000-0003-0963-1901 Nelli Piattoeva 3 B01 21 0000-0002-8897-8016 Iveta Silova 4 B01 Mnemo ZIN 01 eng 00 428 03 12 BM 20 Cold War 04 D843 93 JB B2 Politics and Sociology 10 SOC000000 B2 Biography 20 Childhood 10 HIS054000 12 JH 93 NHTB B2 History 12 JFF 93 JMC 20 Memory 10 PSY004000 10 BIO026000 93 DNC B2 European Studies 12 HBTW 20 State socialism 20 (An)Archive B2 Folklore and Ethnology 12 GTR 93 NHTW 10 POL011000 20 collective biography 12 JMC 10 SOC002000 10 HIS037100 20 Oral history 01 06 03 00 <p>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.</p><p>(An)Archive will be of particular interest to scholars in a variety of fields, but particularly to artists, educators, historians, social scientists, and others working with memory methodologies that range from collective biography to oral history, (auto)biography, autoethnography, and archives.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgments Introduction. The Anarchive of Memories: Restor(y)ing Cold-War Childhoods 1. Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing 2. ‘I Wanted to See the Man with that Mark on his Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory 3. Passing Bye 4. The Other Side of the Curtain? Troubling Western Memories of (Post)socialism 5. You Can’t Go Home Again… Especially if You Have Never Had One 6. The Power of Other Worlds: Civilisational Frames and Child-Adult Intimacies in Socialist Childhoods 7. Growing up in Cold-War Argentina: Working through the (An)archives of Childhood Memories 8. The Secrets: Connections Across Divides 9. Mysterious Cotton Pieces: Childhood Memories of Menstruation 10. Lift Up Your Arms! Elite Athletes and Cold-War Childhoods 11. Children on their Own: Cold-War Childhood Memories of Unsupervised Times 12. Transcending the Border: Memory, Objects, and Alternative Memorialisation in Cold-War Childhoods 13. Anarchive and Arts-Based Research: Upcycling Rediscovered Memories and Materials 14. Anarchive, Oral Histories, and Teaching Comparative Cold-War Childhoods across Geographies and Generations 15. Connecting Across Divides: A Case Study in Public History of the (E-)Motion Comic ‘Ghost Train—Memories of Ghost Trains and Ghost Stations in Former East and West-Berlin’ 16. Re-membering Ceremonies: Childhood Memories of Our Relationships with Plants List of Figures and Other Illustrations About the Contributors Index 01 00 03 02 https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0383_frontcover.jpg Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 16 Tampere University 01 grantnumber 3122800381 Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240422 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805111856 06 15 9781805111863 06 15 9781805111870 06 15 9781805111900 06 15 9781805111887 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0383 20 02 20240422 02 7.99 USD WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0383.epub 20 02 20240422 02 7.99 USD WORLD