{"product_id":"guardians-of-living-history","title":"Guardians of Living History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as members of a national community. In line with other scholarship on memory, this book shows that many Estonians desire an established collective story, as they live in a society where their national identity is quite regularly under threat. At the same time however, that same closure is perceived to pose a threat to the survival of Estonian culture and independence. \u003ci\u003eGuardians of Living History\u003c\/i\u003e provides an intimate insight into the lives of Estonians from the countryside, former deportees, young intellectuals, and memory activists, who all in their own ways act as guardians of a national history: a history which they wish to keep alive, apolitical, and as close to their family stories as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56280800592216,"sku":"9781041180562","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781041180562.jpg?v=1778680883","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/guardians-of-living-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}