Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars: An Oral History Project
▻http://journals.openedition.org/pipss/5856
For some years now, the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies has introduced in its issues the publication of interviews with veterans, war reporters, or other witnesses of the Soviet and post-Soviet wars. Indeed, it seemed important to us to gather the testimony of witnesses who are still alive in order to shed light on past or current conflicts. Today, PIPSS wishes to intensify the practice of collecting oral testimonies which was initiated in 2011. To mark its 15th anniversary, Pipss is launching an oral history project on Soviet and post-Soviet wars which aims to collect and make available interviews of participants in armed conflicts conducted by researchers during their fieldwork, regardless of the focus of their research.
The Project’s Objectives
This project aims to enhance the value of the corpus collected by researchers in order to open up and create exchanges between disciplines and approaches. These past years, researchers from all disciplines (humanities and social sciences) have increasingly produced and still continue to produce oral sources that are used only to a limited extent in the context of articles. These interviews cover a wide range of themes, focuses and angles. Different approaches are used: open, semi-open or closed questionnaire, with or without interview grids, life course etc. War is sometimes dealt with centrally; sometimes conflict is only approached as a stage in a life course, in a trajectory. Whatever their approaches, they are all of great value to understand wars.
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