Memory, History, and Opposition under State Socialism

by Rubie S. Watson

Overview

Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, èmigrè Croats, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the creators of official history jealously guarded the right to produce historical texts, alternative histories survived and on occasion even prospered in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and China. Contestation over how the past was to be represented was never fully eradicated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933452862
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	09/01/1994
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

The subtle and overt ways in which ordinary people subverted the state through private memories and alternative histories provide the focus for this collection of essays, ably introduced and edited by Rubie Watson.

American Anthropologist