‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland
This article examines the biography of a dual-heritage descendant of a Norwegian settler and indigenous Sámi on the Kola Peninsula in north-west Russia, whose parents became victims of Stalin’s terror. Analysing personal experience with oral history methods reveals that the protagonists were trying...
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| description | This article examines the biography of a dual-heritage descendant of a Norwegian settler and indigenous Sámi on the Kola Peninsula in north-west Russia, whose parents became victims of Stalin’s terror. Analysing personal experience with oral history methods reveals that the protagonists were trying to shape actively their own and their fellows’ fates. This challenges the common script of passive victims within a totalitarian state. The narrator’s emphasis on agency as well as her humanising of state representatives are discussed as ways of giving meaning to her family’s history and strategies for coping with traumatic childhood events. |
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| op_source | Allemann , L 2019 , ' ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’ : understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland ' , Oral History , vol. 47 , no. 2 , pp. 65-73 . |
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| spelling | ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/9d5ad54f-67e7-43df-943c-55d8acdaaaaf 2025-06-08T14:04:14+00:00 ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland Allemann, Lukas 2019 application/pdf https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/9d5ad54f-67e7-43df-943c-55d8acdaaaaf https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/5510549/Saami_Soviet_Norwegian_Allemann_OHS_190501_PRE_PRINT.pdf eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Allemann , L 2019 , ' ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’ : understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland ' , Oral History , vol. 47 , no. 2 , pp. 65-73 . /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/6/15 name=History and archaeology /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3 name=Social anthropology article 2019 ftulaplandcdispu 2025-05-13T03:19:15Z This article examines the biography of a dual-heritage descendant of a Norwegian settler and indigenous Sámi on the Kola Peninsula in north-west Russia, whose parents became victims of Stalin’s terror. Analysing personal experience with oral history methods reveals that the protagonists were trying to shape actively their own and their fellows’ fates. This challenges the common script of passive victims within a totalitarian state. The narrator’s emphasis on agency as well as her humanising of state representatives are discussed as ways of giving meaning to her family’s history and strategies for coping with traumatic childhood events. Article in Journal/Newspaper kola peninsula North-West Russia Lapland LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Kola Peninsula |
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| title | ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland |
| title_full | ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland |
| title_fullStr | ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland |
| title_short | ‘I should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within Soviet Lapland |
| title_sort | ‘i should never tell anybody that my mother was shot’:understanding personal testimony and family memories within soviet lapland |
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| url | https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/9d5ad54f-67e7-43df-943c-55d8acdaaaaf https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/5510549/Saami_Soviet_Norwegian_Allemann_OHS_190501_PRE_PRINT.pdf |