When Is It Not âFineâ? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination in Oral Histories of Soviet Citizens

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Chapter 16 When Is It Not âFineâ? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination in Oral Histories of Soviet Citizens

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004737181_018

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Racism evokes feelings of pain and exclusion decades after the fact. Oral historians must work carefully to engage narratives of race and racism in those who were victims. This chapter discusses efforts to uncover the presence of racism in the last decades of the Soviet Union through oral histories. Interviews were held with peoples of the southern republics of the Soviet Union (Georgians, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, and others) who studied, worked, or lived in the Slavic cities of Leningrad and Moscow in the 1970s and 1980s. Oral historians need to select words cautiously and understand the challenges subjects face in coming to grips with painful memories. The article considers oral histories as relationships, where the backgrounds of both interviewer and subject are salient. Oral historians must listen vigilantly for both the absence and the presence of racism in peopleâs oral histories, and their lives, in order to paint nuanced portraits of sensitive subjects. Oral histories allow direct access to narratives of interethnic encounters, which proves especially critical in closed societies like the Soviet Union, where written sources are lacking. The West, however, has its own tools to dissimulate racism.

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Handbook of Global Oral History

Reihe:Â Handbooks of Literary and Cultural Studies, Band: 3

ISBN:: 9789004737181

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 11 Oct 2025

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Altorientalistik und Ägyptologie	Internationales Recht	Pädagogik
Amerikanistik	Judaistik	Philosophie
Asienwissenschaften	Klassische Altertumswissenschaft	Religionswissenschaft
Bibelauslegung	Kunstgeschichte	Slawistik und Eurasienkunde
Biologie	Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften	Sozialwissenschaften
Biowissenschaften	Medienwissenschaft	Sprachen und Linguistik
Buchgeschichte und Kartographie	Menschenrechte und humanitäres Völkerrecht	Theologie und Christentum
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Chapter 16 When Is It Not âFineâ? Ethnic Relations and Racial Discrimination in Oral Histories of Soviet Citizens