SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE COMMUNIST PERIOD – FAMILY, PROPERTY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
SOCIAL BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE COMMUNIST PERIOD – FAMILY, PROPERTY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Summary/Abstract: Life histories or social biographies, sometimes called “smallhistories”, fascinate not only from an aesthetic or slightly nostalgic perspective, assometimes happens with memorialistic writings, but by the richness of the approaches itmakes possible in the social sciences. As it is the “lived history”, the descent to thetalking individual who becomes the main actant in a broader socio-cultural andhistorical context, the characteristics of the account of the living phenomenon should behighlighted when recording and registering some of its marks. Archiving inevitablyinvolves the “freezing” of the lived fact, which is why the researcher is asked to payparticular attention in the “living” preservation of life's stories, taking into account thedynamics of the “open” document. The study presents several social biographies ofrespondents who lived the early period of the communist regime, political changes,nationalization, collectivization, deportations, serious issues of quotas, a dynamic ofstate politics, but also of mentalities.

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