Fragments of the mosaic. Everyday life of Czech society in the period of normalization and transformation from the perspective of oral history
Abstract
Oral history method, which all specialized studies in this book are linked rises to the hearing to the public telling people who can not (or perhaps even the ability) audience reach otherwise - through literary memoirs, newspaper articles, television interviews etc. They, however in history lived, they also experienced the ups and disasters that history has (be it other than by one or another ideology had experience).
And why they are their history and they can talk about them - and their story is just as important, and even as true (whatever that word is understood in any way) telling as anyone else. The studies are individual mosaic stones, which together constitute only (but it is only "just"?) Frame - edge or border - the "big history".
They do not reject or do not challenge the mainstream narrative of "big history" of the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties (or for any other - alternative, revisionist etc. - do not encourage). Then puts it back to him, often with him to be absolutely compatible.
Interested in the community and they reveal a situation that mostly stands aside the interest of professional historians - for their marginality; a series of texts presented here shows that it is a "marginality" only apparent.