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Reluctant Witnesses: Swedish Memoirs from the Soviet Karelian Purges Several hundred Swedes emigrated to Soviet Karelia in the beginning of the 1930s. Many of them remained there when the Great Terror began, and they became targets of repression. As of now, there is no coherent public narrative in S...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ad2e927adb124db1a06f30aad3b6cffb 2023-11-12T04:20:07+01:00 Motvilliga vittnen Lovisa Andén 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v51i3-4.1669 https://doaj.org/article/ad2e927adb124db1a06f30aad3b6cffb DA EN NO SV dan eng nor swe Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap https://publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/view/1669 https://doaj.org/toc/2001-094X doi:10.54797/tfl.v51i3-4.1669 2001-094X https://doaj.org/article/ad2e927adb124db1a06f30aad3b6cffb Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, Vol 51, Iss 3-4 (2022) vittneslitteratur Sovjetunionen Gulag Varlam Sjalamov tystnad tystnadskultur Language and Literature P article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v51i3-4.1669 2023-10-22T00:42:43Z Reluctant Witnesses: Swedish Memoirs from the Soviet Karelian Purges Several hundred Swedes emigrated to Soviet Karelia in the beginning of the 1930s. Many of them remained there when the Great Terror began, and they became targets of repression. As of now, there is no coherent public narrative in Sweden that acknowledge the Swedish survivors; most survivors never talked publicly about their experiences, let alone wrote about them, and the few who did, did so reluctantly. This article discusses four memoirs written by Swedish survivors of the Soviet repression and the silence that still surrounds these memoirs. The narratives themselves, as well as the reception of the narratives, bear witness to the difficulty of narrating experiences that have not yet been publicly acknowledged. Based on the Swedish witness accounts, this article aims to examine 1) the difficulty of testifying in the absence of a public narrative, and 2) the ability of witness literature to challenge and change established historical narratives. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelian Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
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Reluctant Witnesses: Swedish Memoirs from the Soviet Karelian Purges Several hundred Swedes emigrated to Soviet Karelia in the beginning of the 1930s. Many of them remained there when the Great Terror began, and they became targets of repression. As of now, there is no coherent public narrative in Sweden that acknowledge the Swedish survivors; most survivors never talked publicly about their experiences, let alone wrote about them, and the few who did, did so reluctantly. This article discusses four memoirs written by Swedish survivors of the Soviet repression and the silence that still surrounds these memoirs. The narratives themselves, as well as the reception of the narratives, bear witness to the difficulty of narrating experiences that have not yet been publicly acknowledged. Based on the Swedish witness accounts, this article aims to examine 1) the difficulty of testifying in the absence of a public narrative, and 2) the ability of witness literature to challenge and change established historical narratives. |
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