“TISMĂNEANU REPORT” AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. HISTORY WRITING AT THE END OF (SOVIET) MODERNITY Cover Image

“TISMĂNEANU REPORT” AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. HISTORY WRITING AT THE END OF (SOVIET) MODERNITY
“TISMĂNEANU REPORT” AS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. HISTORY WRITING AT THE END OF (SOVIET) MODERNITY

Author(s): Florin Poenaru
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Soviet modernity; anti-communism; history writing; memory; biography.

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that the Tismăneanu Report is a form of auto-poesis given the central role biography and biographical trajectory play in its making and in its narrative form. This biographical centrality is analyzed against the background of a wider transformation at the end of the (Soviet) modernity in relation to the interplay between history writing and memory. The paper traces a shift towards history-as-memory, that is to a mode of relating to and representing the past specific to the endgame of modernity and as such embodying all the contradictions and paradoxes of this “age of transition”.

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 19-38
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English
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