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Gamble, Andrew. "Political Memoirs." Politics 14, no. 1 (June 1994): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.1994.tb00006.x.
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Political memoirs form an accessible primary source for the political scientist, but there is considerable disagreement about their usefulness and reliability. Memoirs can be classified firstly according to whether their chief focus is the ethos, the doctrines, or the policy making of political parties, and secondly according to the principal means employed in their compilation - such as diaries, private and official papers, or personal reminiscences. Examples of these different types of memoir written by members of the Thatcher Government are analysed to demonstrate their uses and limitations.
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Prejsnar-Szatyńska, Sabina. "Pamiętnik Stanisława Pigonia (1885–1968) jako tekst o wychowaniu." Polska Myśl Pedagogiczna 7 (November 30, 2021): 297–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/24504564pmp.21.016.13946.
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Stanisław Pigoń’s (1885–1968) Memoir as a Text about Education This article is a reflection on Stanislaw Pigoń’s memoirs: Z Komborni w świat. Wspomnienia młodości [From Kombornia into the world. Memoirs of youth]. This primary source is of a high pedagogical value. I analyze various threads of this memoir from an educational angle. The memoir allows to see how Pigoń’s values were built by his parents during his childhood and then further developed by him in his adult life in academia. I show the role of those values in creating his own character and personality. Pigoń’s memoir causes readers to rethink their own values, it inspires efforts at personal improvement, and it has a deep pedagogical message.
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Оліцький, В’ячеслав, and Ігор Карпенко. "THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION AND COMBAT PATH OF THE UKRAINIAN SELF-DEFENCE LEGION BASED ON THE MEMOIRS OF ITS MEMBERS." КОНСЕНСУС, no. 3 (November 2022): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.31110/consensus/2022-03/022-034.
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The history of wars and military conflicts belongs to the current topics of scientific research in modern historiography. An important place in their study belongs to historical sources, in particular memoirs. This article is devoted to the study of the formation and combat path of the Ukrainian self-defence legion based on the memoirs of its members. It is noted that Ukrainian military memoirs of the Second World War are characterized by the political and ideological views of the authors, in addition to the typical separation of memories according to the social characteristics of the memoirist. It has been established that the concept of Ukrainian military memoirs is quite conditional. According to the authors, the main feature of assigning memories to this type is the presence of the idea of struggle for Ukrainian statehood. The article presents a short historical tour of the Ukrainian self-defence legion, the main focus is on highlighting its combat path based on the memories of the participants. It was noted that the memoirs of the legion members were published abroad, primarily in the countries of North America, given the forced emigration of the authors. The authors elaborated and included in the research the memoirs of O. Horodyskyi, M. Karkots-Vovk and K. Hirniak, published at different times in the second half of the 20th century. It has been established that the authors of memoirs mainly describe events that they directly witnessed. Each of the authors provides a description of the events and draws conclusions not only by observing certain processes, but also expresses his attitude and gives an assessment of the events. At the same time, the value of memoirs has been noted as historical sources containing information that is almost never found in official documents. Among it, first of all, it is worth highlighting everyday aspects, the morale of the military, relations with the command, etc. It has been established that Ukrainian military memoirs dedicated to the Ukrainian self-defence legion not only describe the history of this military formation, but also highlight broader issues of the Second World War. The article notes the need to adhere to a critical analysis of memories, because they contain a significant influence of the authors’ personal experience, and, accordingly, subjective assessments of events and phenomena.
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Young, Elizabeth. "Memoirs." Narrative Inquiry 19, no. 1 (September 25, 2009): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19.1.04you.
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Four published memoirs refute culturally dominant ideas about severe mental illness as personal weakness, as something shameful, and as a condition that necessarily leads to isolation and disenfranchisement. The narrative structure and content of the memoirs reveal that people’s experience differs from the hegemonic discourse: while narrating symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and acceptance of the illness, all four authors present themselves as accomplished, self-possessed, and socially integrated. Their memoirs, and the act of narrating their experiences with mental illness, challenge the established cultural discourse of mental illness as limitation. The narratives help change that discourse and our social attitudes toward people with mental illness.
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Goretskaia, Ekaterina Mikhailovna. "Comparative content analysis of the memoirs of the repressed: gender aspect." Историческая информатика, no. 1 (January 2022): 108–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2585-7797.2022.1.37831.
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Political terror was a distinctive phenomenon of the Soviet era, affecting broad segments of the population of the USSR. In addition to the official traditional sources on the history of this period (statistics, personal files of prisoners, court materials, periodicals), sources of personal origin play an important role – diaries, letters, interviews and memoirs of prisoners of camps and special settlers. Of particular interest among other sources of personal origin on the history of repression in the USSR are collections of memoirs of the repressed. The largest collection of memoirs is presented on the resource of the Sakharov Center "Memories of the Gulag and their authors". The texts of memoirs posted on this electronic resource have become the main source of this research. Based on the materials of the resource, a full-text thematic collection of memoirs was created and analyzed using the methods of content analysis, network analysis and statistical analysis. A comparative analysis of the reflection of camp life on the pages of memoirs of male and female prisoners is carried out. The analysis suggests that men and women converge in the fundamental aspects of the perception of camps: regardless of gender, the camp stage of life became the most traumatic and was remembered by former prisoners in similar tones. At the same time, neither the gender of the authors of the memoirs, nor the profession, nor the age at the time of arrest, nor the number of years that prisoners were forced to spend in camps globally affect these general perception trends. There are particular features inherent in individual subgroups, both among women and men, of the perception of camps, but in general the perception is the same, and it is the general features of the perception of camp life that are brought to the fore, overshadowing the particular elements. This can serve as a confirmation of the thesis that the collection of memoirs collected and studied in the framework of this study is a mass source.
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Wheaton, Sarah. "Personal Accounts: Memoirs of a Compulsive Firesetter." Psychiatric Services 52, no. 8 (August 2001): 1035–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.8.1035.
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Smaza, Klaudia. "Pamiętnikarska relacja Wirydianny Fiszerowej jako cenne źródło historyczne." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia Historicolitteraria 15 (December 12, 2017): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/3911.
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Memoirs of Wirydianna Fiszerowa as a valuable source of historical data The purpose of this article is to present the work of Wirydianna Fiszerowa, entitled Dzieje moje własne i osób postronnych. Wiązanka spraw poważnych, ciekawych i błahych (Memoirs of myself and others. A mixture of serious, interesting and trivial matters). This incredible story of life in face of the constant threat of war and of living through several political upheavals, all intertwined with personal dramas of an 18th-century woman, makes Fiszerowa's diary unique in the context of Polish memoir writing. The correlation of history and individual experiences of Wirydianna Fiszerowa herself are inseparable elements forming the narrative space of her diary. Thanks to this, Fiszerowa's memoirs are a very important source of historical data, as well as a valuable collection of universal values for future readers. The connection between memoirs or autobiographical literature and history is another issue on which this study is focused. The author of this article aims to present that old literature plays a fundamental role in understanding history, and therefore aids in the interpretation of texts from remote epochs and different cultures.Keywords: history; diary; memoir; autobiography; war; woman;
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Vasvári, Louise O. "Constructing Narrative Identities in the Holocaust Memories/Memoirs of Three Women." Hungarian Cultural Studies 13 (July 30, 2020): 75–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2020.389.
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Although only a decade in age separates each one from the next, the women whose life stories are discussed here represent three distinct Holocaust generations of Hungarian-speaking women. I aim to examine the recently published memories/memoirs of these three women whose narratives are all centered in the Holocaust when the deportations began in Hungary in 1944. Their personal stories are placed within a larger socio-historical context, but treat matters which come within the personal knowledge of the writer and therefore offer precisely the kind of alternative micro-history often provided by women’s narratives. All three authors also have in common that they left their homeland as young adults and hence their stories arguably belong more broadly to the most important subgenre of life writing today. While such writing is produced by both genders, writing by females predominates. My aim is, in part, to examine in the texts under discussion the three autobiographers as self-historians in their retrospective and crafted stories told (and retold) in different contexts, so that their life stories are not merely a recapitulation of past events but rather their creation of personal narrative identities.
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Khuako, F. N. "Memories as fact-based presentation by a soviet author at the beginning of the XX century." REPORTS ADYGE (CIRCASSIAN) INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 21, no. 2 (2021): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.47928/1726-9946-2021-21-2-49-61.
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Unusual for traditional literary criticism, the article examines the problem of genre attribution of memories that have existed for a long time (from the seventeenth – eighteenth centuries) as a form of presentation in Russian literature. This genre type turns out to be a conditional focus of the history of civilization, as well as a concentrate of thought and feeling of an individual member of society. But the tactics and possibilities of a comprehensive examination of memoirs have not yet been identified. As a result, the most highlighted thesis of consideration is the following: in the process of assessing the informational richness of a memoir text, its characteristic individual tonality should by no means be considered a disadvantage. On the contrary, personal judgments contained in memories increase their value as historical information.
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Myzgina, V. "Memories in memoirs: Mykhailo (Moisey) Fradkin." Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkoi deržavnoi akademìi dizajnu ì mistectv 2021, no. 02 (October 2021): 306–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33625/visnik2021.02.306.
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The artist Moisey Fradkin (1904–1974) was a bright talented person in a brilliant galaxy of Ukrainian artists of the late 1920s – mid 1930s. He was a direct participant in the process of forming a special national “face” of graphic art. His works, which were exhibited at numerous foreign exhibitions in Europe and the United States, were noted as “strong and magical.” However, the further Fradkin’s creative destiny was not triumphant – after a very bright surge of original talent, his art was muted in the Procrustean bed of the Stalinist ideology, from about the end of the 1930s to the 1960s. He did not lose his skills, but only at the end of his life, full of wise experience, Fradkin again acquired bright energy and youthful enthusiasm in his work. Fradkin was a widely educated person, he taught at the Kharkiv Art Institute, was an active illustrator, author of easel compositions and graphic miniatures-exlibrises, worked in the field of industrial graphics for many years, headed the section of decorative and applied arts of the Kharkiv Club of Exlibrisists, collected a huge library. He and his wife, H. Krieger put together a unique collection of paintings, graphics and decorative and applied arts (more than 4000 items), which was later inherited by the Kharkiv Art Museum. The museum’s archives contain scattered sheets with fragments of Fradkin’s memoirs about his years of study at the Kharkiv Art College-Institute, which emotionally describe the time of the rapid reform of art education, which was full of contradictions. The article is based on these, not completely deciphered notes, and on the personal memoirs of the author of the article, who was familiar with the artist in the last four years of his life.
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Biro, Ruth G. "Review Article: "A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland." Pogany, George. 2012. When Even the Poets Were Silent: The Life of a Jewish Hungarian Holocaust Survivor under Nazism and Communism. Afterword by Istvan Pogany. Kenilworth, UK: Brandram, Imprint of Takaway Publishing. 263 pp.; Pogany, George. 2014. Where Is My Home? A Hungarian Refugee in England and Holland. Lexington KY: CreateSpace. 209 pp. Illus." Hungarian Cultural Studies 9 (October 11, 2016): 220–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2016.257.
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The personal experiences of individuals who lived through the catastrophes of World War II, the Holocaust and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution have been told in many recent memoirs, greatly expanding our understanding of these historical events. In addition to the experiences of the narrators, the fate of their family members, friends, colleagues and entire communities who were all impacted by these events are also illuminated in these accounts. The two memoirs by George Pogany (b. 1928) cover his life since the early 1930s in Hungary, the Holocaust, communism, his escape to the West in 1956, his settlement in England, resettlement in Holland and his years as an international management consultant in several countries. Few memoirs transmit so vigorously the sweep, resiliency, and duration of the author's life and reflections as in Pogany's exceptionally detailed and insightful twofold memoir.
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Гоков, О. А. "Воспоминания российских офицеров как источник по истории русско-турецкой войны 1828–1829 гг. (на примере А.И. Михайловского-Данилевского и Ф.Ф. Торнау)." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 49, no. 1 (2015): 1–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22102396-04901002.
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“Memories of Russian officers as a source on the history of Russian-Turkish war of 1828–1829. (On an example of A.I. Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky and F.F. Tornau)”. In the article is made a comparative analysis of the memoirs of officers of various links of the Russian army on the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829. A.I. Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky had little personal experience of participation in the immediate life of troops in a campaign in 1829. Therefore his generalizing opinion, as a manager, paradoxically combined with the low informativeness. F.F. Tornau has passed campaign in 1829 at the lowest officer posts of the General Staff. Therefore, his memories more deeply and versatile. Informative component of sources is divided us into four blocks. A significant place in the memoirs is given to life of the rearward and the army. However, it is mainly the life of the officers. Soldier's everyday life in these memoirs practically not displayed.
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Mettele, Gisela. "Constructions of the Religious Self. Moravian Conversion and Transatlantic Communication." Journal of Moravian History 2, no. 1 (2007): 7–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41179823.
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Abstract Within Pietism the concept of "conversion" played an important role in the life of the individual believer. The author studies the way Moravians spoke and wrote about conversion, and what this meant for the constitution of their personality, as well as the community. The main source form thousands of memoirs (Lebensläufe), written by individual Moravians and preserved as manuscripts in various Moravian archives; hundreds were published in Moravian periodicals. The Moravian understanding of conversion was expressly oriented against every notion of "sanctification". The author argues that conversion was both an individual as well as a communal experience. Individual Moravians were shaped by the vocabulary and framework established by previously published memoirs; on the other hand, individuals also affected the development of memoir-writing with their own, personal interpretations of religious life. For Moravians conversion was a lifelong pilgrimage on precarious terrain. The journey did not lead toward personal perfection, but, as the author explains, toward a radical acknowledgement of human imperfection.
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Gillberg, Claudia. "Disability experiences, memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal narratives." Disability & Society 35, no. 9 (March 26, 2020): 1527–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2020.1744253.
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Volodina, Natalya Nikolaevna. "KHASAVYURT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY: MEMOIRS OF A CONTEMPORARY." Herald of Daghestan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Science, no. 73 (June 28, 2019): 62–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.31029/vestdnc73/7.
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The publication presents the memoirs of Arseny Vasilyevich Drobyshev about the life of the sloboda Khasavyurt (Terek region) in the beginning of the ХХ century, up to 1917. There are very few sources about the settlement, espe-cially personal documents – letters, diaries, and memories. That is why the memories of A.V. Drobyshev are the unique and important document. The author describes various areas of life – agriculture, trade, industry, education, culture, health care, improvement of public services, national relations.
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Robbins, Richard G. "Building Vladimir Dzhunkovskii's Memory Palace: The Curious Fate of His Archive and Memoir." Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography 4, no. 1 (2011): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221023811x606242.
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This article traces the convoluted route by which Vladimir Dzhunkovskii's personal papers, originally deposited in Pushkinskii dom in the early 1920s, and his voluminous memoir, acquired by Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich for the State Literary Museum (GLM) in 1934, came to reside in what is now the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF). It also opens windows on little-known aspects of Dzhunkovskii's early life, examines his reasons for writing his memoirs, explores the question of his missing diary, and sheds light on Dzhunkovskii's contacts with Soviet authorities and his consultations for the OGPU. The article shows how Dzhunkovskii's papers, memoirs and persona became issues in the infamous Akademicheskoe delo in 1929 and figured in “museum politics” during the mid-1930s.
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Roshchina, O. S., and O. A. Farafonova. "Specifics of the narrative about the rulers in Russian memoirs of the 20s – 70s of the 18th century." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 4 (2020): 63–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/73/4.
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The paper considers the ways of authors’ self-representation concerning the presentation of the figure of the ruler in Russian memoirs of the 18th century. The memoirs of the 20s – 50s tend to combine personal and impersonal narrative with the predominance of the latter. This combination makes the view of events seem objective. Memoirists do not make value judg-ments about rulers and describe only facts. However, even in an impersonal narrative, mem-oirists, being former participants or witnesses of the described events, cannot avoid making judgments about various figures of their era. In the 60s and 70s, authors mostly used personal narrative and noticed any shortcomings of the reigning characters. In some cases, memoirists justify and explain them by the harmful influence of the courtier environment or do not rec-ognize them as particularly serious. In other cases, shortcomings in public administration or wrong actions of the monarch are seen as a direct consequence of his personality. Memoirists, whose personal formation, as a rule, was in the time of Peter the Great (Neplyuev, Shakhovskaya), think about the figure of the sovereign as of an absolute super-personal value. Obviously, this personal value came to be devalued in the minds of people of the post-Petrine era and/or those personally affected by the rule of a monarch (Dolgorukaya, Minikh). The process of memoir individualization occurs during this period simultaneously in two direc-tions – of the subject of the utterance and the object of description.
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Steinberg, Michael. "Finding the Inner Story in Memoirs and Personal Essays." Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 5, no. 1 (2003): 185–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fge.2003.0027.
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Lapidot-Firilla, Anat. "The Memoirs of Halıde edıb (1884-1964): The Public Persona and the Personal Narrative." New Perspectives on Turkey 21 (1999): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600006385.
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On 23 May 1919, a large crowd gathered in Sultan Ahmet Square in the center of Istanbul. Facing them was one of the most famous female figures of modern Turkish history. Since that day, the gathering has come to symbolize the call by the masses for change in the structure of authority and their protest against the 15 May occupation of Izmir by Greek expeditionary forces. Not only has this gathering taken on a mythical aura, but so has the image of Halide Edib, the woman who faced the crowd that day.
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Filippova, O. G. "Museums of the region under the «careful wing» of G. A. Kubrina." Field studies in the Upper Ob, Irtysh and Altai (archeology, ethnography, oral history and museology) 16 (2021): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2687-0584-2021-16-17-27.
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The publication is dedicated to the memory of G. A. Kubrina. The author shares personal memories of working together, gives examples of the implementation of important projects in the field of museum activities. The article includes the memoirs of L.A. Chudnova, who worked with G. A. Kubrina from 1994 to 2019. The role of G. A. Kubrina as the head of the museum sphere of the Altai Territory is noted.
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Melnikova, O. M., and T. I. Ostanina. "ARCHAEOLOGIST ALEXEY PETROVICH SMIRNOV ABOUT THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 4 (August 25, 2020): 718–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-4-718-727.
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The authors publish the memories of the famous Soviet archaeologist, doctor of Historical Sciences K. A. Smirnov about his father, Alexey Petrovich Smirnov. A. P. Smirnov is an outstanding Soviet scientist, representative of the first generation of Soviet archaeologists. He is known for his numerous studies on Finno-Ugric and Bulgar archaeology. From the second half of the 1920s to the 1930s, A. P. Smirnov conducted archaeological research into the territory of Udmurtia. His research, as well as the research of many other scientists, was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War. In the 1990s, the scientist’s son, K. A. Smirnov, compiled memoirs about his father, in which he describes the scientist's attitude to the war, and gives the facts of the archaeologist’s biography in connection with military events. These memoirs are supplemented by the letter from A. P. Smirnov to Kazan archaeologist A. M. Efimova. The documents allow to reveal the facts of A. P. Smirnov’s personal biography, and have an important social significance, reflecting the tragic events of the wartime through personal history.
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Garusova, Olga. "Everyday Life and Traditions of the Russian Community of Interwar Сhisinau in the Memoirs of Contemporaries." Journal of Ethnology and Culturology 30 (December 2021): 103–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/rec.2021.30.13.
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The article examines the everyday and cultural traditions of the Russian population of interwar Сhisinau based on sources of personal origin. There were selected and analyzed unpublished memoirs of contemporaries who belonged to the noble and intelligent urban stratum, kept in the personal funds of the National Archives of Republic of Moldova. The range of topics and plots is very wide, but Russian problems are implicitly present in all memoirs. Describing everyday habits, leisure, professional occupations, social activities of the Russian-speaking intelligentsia of those years, the authors reflect the world outlook and opinions inherent in their ethno-cultural environment. The studied memoirs show that the everyday life and culture of the Russian population of the 1920s and 30s reflected continuity with those that were characteristic of the previous decades. During the period when Bessarabia was part of Royal Romania, the Russian community, being in new social and ideological conditions, tried to preserve their religious and cultural forms of everyday life. However, while remaining outwardly unchanged, many traditions were filled with a different content moving from social to private life. These personal documents and memoirs allow us to focus on the key topic in ethnology: investigation of the daily life of the Russian population in Bessarabia during the interwar period, less studied in historical discourse.
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Tikhonov, M. "Serhiy Solodovnyk: a Man of Legend." Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkoi deržavnoi akademìi dizajnu ì mistectv 2021, no. 02 (October 2021): 345–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33625/visnik2021.02.345.
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The article contains memoirs about the teacher of Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute, a unique person and teacher Serhiy Solodovnyk (1915–1991), which are related to his work in the 1970s. Through personal memories and impressions, the author of the publication reveals the pedagogical system and methods of teaching of academic drawing to students of the institute, professional and human qualities of S. Solodovnyk, which influenced the formation of young artists at the institute and their further work.
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Zhou, Tingting. "Life Writing in the Era of Genetics: Contemporary Genetic Risk Narratives in Great Britain and America." English Language and Literature Studies 11, no. 3 (July 29, 2021): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v11n3p45.
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The development of genetic science brings forth a third group besides the healthy and the ill: the high-risk group who carries certain disease-related genes. In the era of genetics, people try to assess risks with statistical numbers and eliminate risks by Western medical measures. In this context, personal genetic risk narratives (usually in the form of memoirs) emerged in Great Britain and America in the 1990s. The thesis has a close reading of three British and American genetic risk memoirs and wants to find the characteristics and values of the new genre. The memoirs are featured by their vivid description of the narrator’s difficult and complex situation in face of genetic risks. In an era when the body is dominated by statistical numbers, these narratives make personal meaning of impersonal statistics. Genetic risk narratives express a strong belief in genetic technology and Western medical myth. However, the narrative divergence and self-contradiction in the memoirs exposes the limitation of genetic determinism and thus deconstructs the Western medical myth.
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Felman, Jyl Lynn. "Review Essay: They Had No Voice by Denny Abbott and Working for Peace and Justice by Lawrence S. Wittner." Radical Teacher 98 (February 27, 2014): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2014.86.
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Book Review comparing and contrasting the memoirs They Had No Voice by Denny Abbott and Working For Peace and Justice by Lawrence S. Wittner. Topics discussed include how the personal becomes political; working for social justice locally and globally; the disarmament movement, 1960's activism, and the omission of the feminist movement from both memoirs.
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Bianchi, Marina. "A Joyful Economist. Scitovsky's Memoirs." HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY, no. 2 (October 2012): 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/spe2012-002003.
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Few economists choose to write memoirs, and of those who do most adopt the "logic of my contributionsŁ approach. Tibor Scitovsky, Hungarian-born theorist who spent most of his career at Stanford and Berkeley, instead left us unpublished recollections, many of his childhood, others bearing on his personal philosophy (and shift therein) - of teaching, of the role of economic theory, of its imperfections. By their nature these Memoirs give us glimpses into his nimble, original thinking, without being weighed down with considerations of priority, answering critics, and so on. The paper tries to capture this spirit, frequently in Scitovsky's own words.
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Taylor, David M. "A history of accelerator radiation protection—personal and professional memoirs." Applied Radiation and Isotopes 46, no. 1 (January 1995): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0969-8043(95)90057-8.
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Carlin, Andrew P. "Firing the Sociological Imagination: The Collaborative Organization of Personal Memoirs." Symbolic Interaction 43, no. 1 (April 7, 2019): 187–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/symb.424.
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TEODORESCU, Alexandra. "MILTON AND ROSE FRIEDMAN – A STORY FOR FREEDOM." International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on the Dialogue between Sciences & Arts, Religion & Education 4, no. 1 (December 7, 2020): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26520/mcdsare.2020.4.25-30.
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This paper investigates the personal and professional story of two prominent American thinkers, Milton and Rose Friedman. Based on their memoirs, “Two Lucky People. Memoirs”, we will connect the biographical aspects with the theoretical and philosophical ideals promoted by the Friedmans’ during their lifetime. The direct connection between economic and political freedom, the importance of the individual in the creation of society, the free market as model for human activity, these are all ideas shared and presented by Milton and Rose Friedman and we will show how their personal stories, of immigrant’s children, have come to shape their professional profile.
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Dushenkova, Tatyana Rudolfovna, and Liubov Petrovna Fedorova. "POETIC STYLE OF NON-FICTION MEMOIRS: THE PROBLEM OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT IN THE BOOK OF M. ATAMANOV “ULON-VYLON DAURKAE: TODE VAYONYOS”." Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies 14, no. 3 (October 2, 2020): 445–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2224-9443-2020-14-3-445-453.
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The article looks into the poetic style of the new book of memoirs of Mikhail Atamanov “Ulon-vylon Daurkae: todevayonyos” (The World of My Life-Being: Memoirs) in the context of the development of non-fiction literature in the Udmurt literary process at the turn of the century. The focus is on the artistic features of the genre of memoirs in the works of a Finno-Ugric scholar, essayist, publicist, missionary, translator of the Bible and liturgical literature into the Udmurt language, compiler of the national epic “Tangyra”. The main theme of the memoirs is the theme of motherhood and fatherhood, the image of a small homeland, the ethnic history of the Udmurt people, the path to Christianity. For Mikhail Atamanov, the source for creating the memoirs was his studies in linguistics, ethnography and expeditions to the Udmurt ethnic groups along with his personal life experience. Special poetry to the leading images of the memoirs, the portraits of the parent home and small homeland, is created by a deep knowledge of folklore, folk traditions, the bearer of which is the author of memoirs. In addition to that, Atamanov’s book is significant for the theme of road, which is not so notable at first sight. It is associated with his life experience, personal becoming, his studies, work, spiritual and scientific growth. It is worth noting that the theme of continuity of generations, inherited memory of the public, common closeness with the ancestors is also topical in the memoirs. One of the burning issues of the book is the theme of the nation’s future. The author is overly concerned about the globalization processes in the world, he is hurt by the fact that the current generation of Udmurts doesn’t much care for keeping the Udmurt language and traditions of the nation.
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Oeler, Karla. "The Dead Wives in the Dead House: Narrative Inconsistency and Genre Confusion in Dostoevskii's Autobiographical Prison Novel." Slavic Review 61, no. 3 (2002): 519–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3090300.
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In Notes from the Dead House, fictional narrator Aleksandr Petrovich Gorianchikov appears as wife murderer in the preface and as a political prisoner in the memoirs. In the preface, Gorianchikov experiences moral anguish over his crime. But the memoirs actively employ social analysis to shift the burden of guilt from convicts onto the social structure. This authoritarian structure, which divides society into an underclass of ignorant “children” ruled by violent “fathers,” notably excludes women. The murder of a second wife in an inset tale brutally enacts this exclusion: while Gorianchikov's social analysis helps him understand many of the prisoners, it cannot account for the convict Shishkin's murder of his wife Akulka. Gorianchikov's personal guilt for murdering his wife constitutes a response to—and a repetition of—the moral bewilderment that emerges out of Akulka's death. Seen in this light, the formal tensions between preface, memoir, and inset tale are motivated by and demonstrate a conflict between social analysis and individual responsibility.
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Lauzzana, Ray. "Computer Memoirs of Ray Lauzzana." Leonardo 52, no. 2 (April 2019): 191–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01323.
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This article traces the author’s work with computers from his earliest experiences in the 1960s through the mid-1980s when personal computers and the Internet changed everything. The author’s earliest work with computing involved developing a “critical path” system along the lines outlined by Buckminster Fuller. He continued mixing art and mathematics throughout his career, engaging psychophysics and synesthesia. By the 1980s, the author turned to publishing about computer graphics; in the mid-1980s, he homebrewed a “listserver” to distribute one of the first electronic publications—fineArt forum (fAf). In 1981, he was invited by Al Gore to develop an exhibition of computer artists at the Library of Congress for the Congressional Hearing on the Internet—the legislation passed, and computing has never been the same.
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Kunt, Gergely. "Ironic Narrative Agency as a Method of Coping with Trauma in the Diary-Memoir of Margit K., a Female Holocaust Survivor." Hungarian Cultural Studies 7 (January 9, 2015): 28–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2014.137.
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This paper analyzes the rhetoric of a manuscript written in Budapest immediately after the Holocaust to record the personal experiences of the author, Margit K. I examine the text in terms of the role of writing and narration in processing trauma and how these appear in the narrative. In her memoirs, Margit K. had imbued her personal history of persecution with meanings that facilitated their integration into her life history and her self-definition. She chose to narrate her tragic past using euphemistic, mitigating, or ironic language and constructed her stories to have positive outcomes while attempting to write as little of the pain and tragedy of her persecution as possible. The euphemizing narrative methods used in the memoirs disappear entirely in the diary and the themes discussed in the diary are also different, which shows the advantages of constructing a desired past within the genre of the memoirs in contrast to the more strictly defined genre of diary-writing.
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Ulatowska, Hanna, and Gloria Olness. "Reflections on Identity in Memoirs of Writers With Aphasia: Lessons Learned on the Path Toward Recovery." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.413.
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Abstract Personal stories provide insight into the experience of illness as it intersects with one’s identity. Prior studies by the first author examined identity as manifested in personal accounts of U.S. World War II veterans with and without dementia. The current study examines identity as revealed through written memoirs of middle-aged and older adults who have aphasia, from a cross-section of North American, European, and Australian cultures. The abrupt onset of stroke and associated aphasia, and the subsequent path toward re-engagement in life with an often-chronic communicative impairment, provide a unique window into the nature and evolution of the identity of the writer. The written modality offers an opportunity for reflective formulation that is not afforded to the memoir-writers in their verbal expression. Nineteen memoirs and biographical accounts of individuals with aphasia from a range of primarily individualistic cultures were examined for content reflective of the identity of the author, focused on post-stroke phases of restitution and quest. Primary authors were people with aphasia or rarely their close family member. Some were professional editors, poets or authors. Gender and life backgrounds were varietal. Manifestations of personal identity, its reinforcement, and its evolution were evidenced in: the provision of lessons learned from living with aphasia; content of letters exchanged with friends; engagement with family in life and recovery; fictional and poetic expression; spiritual insight; renewed or altered occupational pursuits; and comments on facing one’s mortality. Findings hold implications for the cross-cultural practice of narrative medicine with the older adult population.
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Mchugh, Susan. "Bitch, Bitch, Bitch: Personal Criticism, Feminist Theory, and Dog‐writing." Hypatia 27, no. 3 (2012): 616–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01289.x.
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By the turn of the twenty‐first century, women writing about electing to share their lives with female canines directly confront a strange sort of backlash. Even as their extensions of the feminist forms of personal criticism contribute to significant developments in theories of sex, gender, and species, they become targets of criticism as “indulgent” for focusing on their dogs. Comparing these elements in and around popular memoirs like Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond between People and Dogs (1998) and Deirdre McCloskey's Crossing: A Memoir (1999), as well as academic studies like Alice Kuzniar's Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (2006) and Donna Haraway's When Species Meet (2007), this essay elaborates the ways in which living with and writing about female canine companions informs poststructuralist and feminist questions about the embodiment and performance of structures of authority, including those of academic writers, “dog‐mom” stereotypes, and reproductively silenced bodies. Situating these texts amid discussions of form in and around feminist/dog‐writing, I argue that together they move narrative beyond the abstract model of the lone “authoritative” human individual, reframing feminist politics as intra‐active, even trans‐species, from the ground up.
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Chernov, Oleg Alexandrovich. "Contemporaries’ memoirs about N.V. Charykov’s diplomatic activity." Samara Journal of Science 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 102–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv20161206.
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The article focuses on N.V. Charykov, who was an outstanding Russian diplomat who played an important role in Russias foreign policy. His activity is reflected in many official documents. However, they not fully represent his interaction with other civil servants of the Russian empire, and, consequently, do not reflect in full the atmosphere in which the diplomat worked. At the same time, autobiographical sources containing a subjective approach by definition are not capable of giving objective characteristic of his activity. We do not consider the memoirs of the diplomat himself, as our objective is to find out his contemporariess opinion of him. The considered memoirs can be classified in two basic types - diaries and memoirs. Diaries can be divided into two types - business and personal. The latter are much less informative than the former. A personal diary has an advantage over a business one from the point of view of the emotional colouring and to a certain degree reproduces attitudes of the individuals described. The memoirists line of activity is important. Diplomats memoirs contain a better weighed appraisal of the diplomats activity. The authors, who were not diplomats themselves, display their incompetence. The memoirs contain different, sometimes opposite assessment of the diplomats activity, that is another proof of their subjectivity. At the same time, they help to better understand the motives of N.V. Charykovs activity and the attitude of the milieu to him.
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Metz, Alexander G., and Tatyana K. Kashcheeva. "Petrograd, 1920s: on Shadow Characters in Yuri Kamensky’s Memoirs." Literary Fact, no. 20 (2021): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-20-189-204.
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The memoirs of Yuri Kamensky, O.E. Mandelstam’s classmate at the Tenishev School, convey a life picture of the memoirist’s kindred-friendly circle in post-revolutionary Petrograd. Many people in this circle were closely connected with the world of art and literature, making up the cultural environment that was destroyed or adapted with great difficulty to the realities of a new life. Based on research in various St. Petersburg archives, the article provides biographical data on three previously uncommented characters in the memoirs – Polina Uflyand, the poet Nikolai Otsup’s first wife, Tamara Vreden and her husband Joseph Kobetsky, a journalist and publisher. The data of personal files, questionnaires, applications to various authorities, materials of personal correspondence were used.
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Marche, Guillaume. "Political memoirs and intimate confessions: Analysing four US gay liberation/gay rights militants’ memoirs." Sexualities 20, no. 8 (February 8, 2017): 959–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716677036.
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The US gay liberation and gay rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s are a contested historical and sociological terrain. We analyse the narrative reconstruction of militant identities in the memoirs of four gay movement militants – Martin Duberman, Amy Hoffman, Karla Jay, Arnie Kantrowitz. The article focuses on the way authors account for the interplay between their self-discovery through sexuality and through militancy. We endeavour to fully appreciate the interaction of the personal and the social in order to gauge the degree to which confessions about sexuality take on a meaning that escapes authors’ control, or whether that meaning is a reflection of the authors’ agency. After a brief summary of how the authors tell about their sexual history, the article analyses the four authors’ distinctly different genders, generations, and political options as pertinent variables for comparison among the memoirs.
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Coats, A. W. Bob. "Memoirs of an Economist Watcher." Journal of the History of Economic Thought 18, no. 2 (1996): 250–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1053837200003266.
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Oddly enough, my first clear recollection of an encounter with an economic proposition dates from the age of six or seven, when my father (who died suddenly from the pneumonia when I was eight) casually remarked that the Colman Mustard Company derived most of its profits from the residue people left on their plates. Unfortunately at the time I did not appreciate the analytical subtlety of this observation. Nor, I suspect, did my father, who probably only wanted to particularize the familiar maxim: waste not, want not. Nevertheless, the point evidently stayed in my mind, though I cannot claim it as the origin of my subsequent fascination with economics. The evolution of my attitudes to economics will tie considered later. First, however, let me briefly sketch some relevant features of my personal and socio-economic background, which may shed some light on my subsequent intellectual activities.
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Serhiienko, S. Yu. "LITERARY MEMOIRS ABOUT PERSONAL RELATIONS OF UKRAINIAN WRITERS IN THE 1920S." Scientific notes of Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, series Historical Sciences, no. 3 (2020): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.32838/2663-5984/2020/3.14.
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Кокорина, Галина Алексеевна. "RUSSIAN EMPIRE AS AN OBJECT OF COMMEMORATION IN THE MEMORIES OF FOREIGNERS SECOND HALF OF THE XVIII CENTURY." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: История, no. 4(60) (December 29, 2021): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vthistory/2021.4.106-113.
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В статье анализируются источники личного происхождения иностранцев, находившихся на территории Российской империи во второй половине XVIII в. Рассматриваются различные формы источников личного происхождения: дневники, воспоминания, записки, личные письма. Изучается содержательная часть источников личного происхождения. На основе мемуарных данных автор выявляет основные моменты, связанные с формированием образа Российской империи. Автор приходит к выводу, что воспоминания, представленные в текстах, позволяют увидеть зависимость влияния различных факторов на формирование облика государства. Даётся небольшой историографический обзор. Автор использовал комплексный подход, позволивший рассматривать роль памяти в контексте коммеморативных практик в источниках личного происхождения. Исследователь приходит к выводу, что образ России является связующим элементом между иностранцами, которые были в Российской империи во второй половине XVIII в. The article analyzes the sources of the personal origin of foreigners who were on the territory of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 18th century. Various forms of sources of personal origin are considered: diaries, memoirs, notes, personal letters. The content of the sources of personal origin is being studied. On the basis of memoir data, the author identifies the main points associated with the formation of the image of the Russian Empire. The author comes to the conclusion that the memories presented in the texts make it possible to see the dependence of the influence of various factors on the formation of the state's image. A small historiographic overview is given. The author used an integrated approach, which made it possible to consider the role of memory in the context of commemorative practices in sources of personal origin. The researcher comes to the conclusion that the image of Russia is a connecting element between foreigners who were in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 18th century.
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Filippova, Tatyana P., and Svetlana A. Simakova. "“The Summary of Life, or the Long Paradox”: From Memoirs of the Repressed Scientist V. V. Grechukhin." Herald of an archivist, no. 4 (2020): 1143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2020-4-1143-1155.
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Memoirs of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, professor Vladimir Vasilyevich Grechukhin (1913–98) preserved in the fonds of the Vorkuta Museum and Exhibition Center are being published. The memoirs highlight tragic events in the author’s life: serving the sentence in the forced labour camps of the GULAG in 1936–41. During this period, the young man experienced all the hardships of repression: hunger, humiliation, struggling under harsh natural conditions of the Arctic, heavy work at the industrial facilities of Vorkuta. The memoirs of V. V. Grechukhin are a unique written monument of past; events are described through the lens of personal assessment and interpretation, they spring from memory, feelings, and impressions, shifting the emphasis from fact to personal perception. Despite all hardships, it was the time of V. V. Grechukhin’s formation as a scientist. It was in the labour camps that he began the first geophysical research in Vorkuta and made a significant contribution to the development of the Pechora coal basin in the 1930s–40s. After his time was served, Grechukhin remained in Vorkuta until 1960s to continue his research. In his memoirs, the scientist details conditions in which he had to conduct his research, describes the atmosphere of creativity, the daily life, the social and psychological climate. His memoirs are a valuable source on scientific development of the Northern territories of Russia in the 1930s–40s implemented by the Soviet government by efforts of the GULAG prisoners. Study of the history of Soviet prison institutions has revealed many aspects of repression and functioning of camps. However, from the point of view of social history, studying the GULAG in its human dimension seems equally important. The introduction of the memoirs into scientific use is to expand the study of the GULAG phenomenon.
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OLIINYK, Serhii. "THE PODILIAN PAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN GALICIAN ARMY IN THE MEMOIRS OF CONTEMPORARIES." Ukraine: Cultural Heritage, National Identity, Statehood 32 (2019): 222–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33402/ukr.2019-32-222-237.
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The paper studies the Podilian page in the history of the Ukrainian Galician Army through the memoirs and recollections of its contemporaries. The importance of the latter for аn in-depth investigation of the issue leaves no doubt. It is argued that along with the actual material, they сontain valuable theoretical generalizations. The memoirs in question are conditionally classified according to their origin. The content of the memoirs is analyzed in terms of military-political, socio-economic, and national-cultural aspects of the above said military formation deployed in the Podilia region. In addition to the information on the battles fought by the Galician army, the memoirs and recollections are found to contain data on its size, organization, combat path. As well they contain information on the then political events that directly affected the Ukrainian Galician Army and the relationship of the Galician soldiers with the residents. It is noted that сertain concrete facts in the memoirs testify to the complexity and sometimes contradictory nature of those relationships. The publications attest to the true attitude of the Podolians to the Galician army and show a significant proportion of both supporters and opponents. Personal reflections of the contemporaries are also recorded in their memoirs. Keywords Ukrainian Galician Army, Podilia, Galician troops, memoirs, recollections.
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Zekri Masson, Souhir. "Marina Warner, Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir." European Journal of Life Writing 11 (October 11, 2022): R40—R45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.11.39337.
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In The Encyclopedia of Life Writing, Francis Russell Hart is quoted as having written that ‘[m]emoirs personalize history and historicize the personal … memoirs are about individuals,’ but they can reflect ‘an event, an era, an institution, a class identity’ (qtd. in Buss 595). This fits in perfectly with Marina Warner’s Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir, her latest publication and most openly autobiographical one. On the one hand, crucial historical moments are personalized such as post-World-War II British neo-colonialism or ‘soft power’ in Egypt and the ensuing 1952 Cairo riots whose circumstances and consequences her parents, Emilia Terzulli and Esmond Warner, went through. On the other hand, Warner’s personal past, or rather her parents’ first meeting, wedding and various trips which transported them from Bari to London, then to a cosmopolitan post-war Cairo where the father opened a WH Smith bookshop, are historicized.
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Abramova, Aleksandra A. "An early edition of Andrey Bolotov’s memoirs (from the archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum)." Slovo.ru: Baltic accent 11, no. 2 (2020): 114–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5922/2225-5346-2020-2-10.
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The history of the creation of Andrei T. Bolotov’s memoirs has been little studied. In particular, the stages of his work on this text are not entirely clear. This article is an attempt to shed light on one aspect of this problem. Bolotov’s personal fund (No. 349) in the Archives and manuscripts section of the State Historical Museum contain a manuscript of Bolotov’s memoirs entitled “Part 2”. It differs significantly in its essential characteristics (paper, design, size, composition, title, division into sections, etc.) from most manuscripts of Bolotov’s memoirs. The study presents a textual analysis of this manuscript and compares it with the text of memoirs published by Mikhail Semevsky, — the most complete printed edition of The Life and Adventures of Andrei Bolotov. The stages of Bolotov’s work on the manuscript are considered; a comparative analysis of lexical units, stylistic preferences, and the content of the manuscript is carried out. The results obtained suggest that the undated manuscript is the earliest version of the memoirs, supposedly written in the late 1770s.
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Sekenova, Olga I. "Childhood in the memoirs of Russian female historians of the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries." RUDN Journal of Russian History 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 286–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-2-286-294.
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The present paper studies ego-documents of Russian female historians written in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, with a focus on the works of N.I. Gagen-Thorn, E.V. Gutnova, M.M. Levis, V.N. Kharuzina, S.V. Zhitomirskaya, E.N. Shchepkina, and N.D. Flittner. How do these authors, in their childhood descriptions, discuss their professional choices? By producing ego-documents, the female historians wanted to preserve their memory of childhood events in the form of a new historical source. In so doing they followed the principles that they also adhered to when wri- ting historical essays. At the same time their texts are very subjective: each reflects the respective researcher's personal experiences. Each text is unique, and there are few overlaps with the memoirs of other female historians of their time, or with those of younger colleagues. In many ways, the women were influenced by authors of the Russian memoirist tradition; they often adhered to self-censorship (even when there was no clear ideological pressure from society). As a result, the narrative about childhood turned into a narrative about the prerequisites for the self-identification of women as scientists. Memories became a form of self-representation, and this conditioned the selective nature of childhood narratives; later success in the profession was projected back onto childhood memories. The childhood narratives of Russian female historians differ from texts of their male colleagues: women preferred to describe their impressions with references to material artifacts and to everyday rituals, writing carefully about their emotional experiences. One of the most important subjects in these womens memoirs and diaries was when they for the first time experienced the gender conflict in their lives: when they understood that their scholarly ambition runs against the common attitudes about gender attitudes that they had internalized in early childhood.
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Blanchard, Walter F. "Technical Extracts from the Memoirs of Dr. J. A. Pierce." Journal of Navigation 55, no. 2 (May 2002): 157–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463302001704.
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The following is the second part of an extract from the memoirs of Dr. J. A. Pierce who was deeply involved in the development of radionavigation aids in the USA between 1941 and 1973. These are, of course, personal reminiscences, and some issues might be challenged by others working in the same field at the time. However, they give a remarkable insight into the problems faced by the scientists of the day and how they were overcome. The editing principle used here has been to rigorously preserve Dr. Pierce's own wording while eliminating those parts of a purely personal nature. The entire original document without cuts may be found on www.internationalnavigation.org.
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Stroganova, Yevgeniya. "Ivan Yuvachev: personal and public." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 8, no. 1 (July 1, 2017): 91–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.3606.
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The article draws on the personal fund of Ivan P. Yuvachev, member of the revolutionary organisation Narodnaya Volia, political convict and hard labourer, who eventually became a religious writer and memorialist. His literary heritage – unlike his son’s, the absurdist poet Daniil Kharms – has long remained forgotten. Basing on the biographical method, we elucidate the difference of self-expression of a writer in his texts designed for publication and his ego-documents. Our analysis aims at showing that his memoirs and essays uncovered Yuvachev’s external biography, while his private texts – his diaries and personal correspondence – are more pertinent to reveal his creed, particularly the idealism that constituted the core of his personality. This raises the question of the writer’s preserving the documents which concerned his private life. Our hypothesis is that Yuvachev was deliverately constructing his personal archive, ready to the fact that in future his life and destiny would become known in every detail.
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Moser, Michael. "George Y. Shevelov’s Personal “History of the Ukrainian Language in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies 3, no. 1 (February 15, 2015): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21226/t2c88j.
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<p class="EW-abstract"><strong>Abstract:</strong> In his two-volume memoirs, George Shevelov (1908-2002), the leading specialist of Ukrainian linguistics in the twentieth century, offers recurring observations about the development of his attitudes toward Ukrainian, and other languages to which he was exposed. The present article collects and interprets such comments from the first part of the memoirs in order to reconstruct some elements of Shevelov’s personal “history of the Ukrainian language in the first half of the twentieth century.”</p><p class="EW-Keyword"><strong>Keywords:</strong> George Y. Shevelov, Ukrainian Linguistics, Kharkiv, Language Biography</p>
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Sahrakorpi, Tiia. "Memory, Family, and the Self in Hitler Youth Generation Narratives." Journal of Family History 45, no. 1 (October 23, 2019): 88–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199019880254.
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This article examines how the Hitler Youth generation (born 1925–1933) narrativizes their family stories by analyzing archived memoirs, published memoirs, and school essays from the1947–1949 period. The Hitler Youth generation’s postwar recollections of the National Socialist period vary according to medium and time. Both are key to understanding this generation’s struggle to master the Nazi past on national and personal levels. Using Fivush and Merrill’s expanded concept of ecological systems to study family stories, this article illustrates how archived memoirs transfer family stories intergenerationally. Its key finding is that these narratives act as memory tools to transmit stories of Nazi Germany family life; in turn, this reveals narrative gaps and inconsistences and occasionally the narrator’s inability to cope with compromised family members.