Contents // Acknowledgements viii // Notes on Contributors xi // 1 Introduction: Biographical Research and 1 // Historical Watersheds // Robert Miller - UK, Robin Humphrey - UK, // Elena Zdravomyslova -Russia // PART 1 The Potential of Biographical Research // 2 Context, Authenticity, Referentiality, Reflexivity: 27 // Back to Basics in Autobiography // J. P. Roos -Finland // 3 The Usefulness of Life Stories for a Realist 39 // and Meaningful Sociology // Daniel Bertaux - France // 4 Three Dimensions of Biographical Narratives 53 // Valery Golofast - Russia // V // vi Biographical Research in Eastern Europe // PART 2 Communists, Informers and Dissidents // 5 Estonian-inclined Communists as Marginals 71 // Aili Aarelaid-Tart -Estonia // 6 Portrayals of Past and Present Selves in the 101 // Life Stories of Former Stasi Informers // Barbara Miller - Austria // 7 Czech Dissidents: A Classically Modem Community 115 // Vladimir Andrie - UK // 8 Anti-Soviet Biographies: The Dissident Milieu 129 // and its Neighbouring Milieux // Sofia Tchouikina -Russia // 9 The Café Saigon Tusovka\\ One Segment of the 141 // Informal-public Sphere of Late-Soviet Society // Elena Zdravomyslova -Russia // PART 3 Exile, Migration and Adapting to Social Change // 10 Living the Life: Exile in the Experience of the 181 // Polish Intelligentsia // John A. Jackson - Ireland // 11 Biographical Continuities and Discontinuities 191 // in East-West Migration before and after 1989. // Two Case Studies of Migration
from // Romania to West Germany // Roswitha Breckner - Austria // 12 Trajectories of Coping Strategies in Eastern Germany 211 // Olaf Struck - Germany // Contents vii // 13 Inequality and Exclusion in the History of Poor Slovak // 225 // Families // Zuzana Kusá - Slovakia // PART 4 Ethnicity and Sexuality // Different Generations of Leningrad Jews // 239 // Index // in the Context of Public/Private Division: // Paradoxes of Ethnicity // Viktor Voronkov and Elena Chikadze - Russia // Shame, Promiscuity and Social Mobility in // Russian Autobiographies from Poor Working-class // Milieux // Anna Rotkirch - Finland // The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women’s // Biographies // Anna Temkina - Russia // 263 // 299 // 321