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Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Epigraphs
- Preface: Departure and Arrival
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of figures
- Introduction: The politics of the old
- 1. The past as a rotting place
- 2. Reframing the Soviet inheritance through repair
- 3. Anything works, one just needs the right adaptor
- 4. Spending time with buildings
- 5. Tallinn 2017 chronotope
- 6. Narva, a centre out there
- 7. A memory-constructing space in Tartu
- 8. Children of the New East
- Conclusion: The past is not what it used to be
- Epilogue: A global Subbotnik
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back-cover