DEPORTATION OF THE KALMYKS TO SIBERIA (1943—1956): ORAL STORIES AS SOFT FORMS OF MEMORY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the aspects of the Kalmyks’ deportation to Siberia (1943–1956), which have not yet been sufficiently studied by anthropologists and sociologists, and the memory of this. It shows the strategies of survival and adaptation of the young generation of special settlers in the places of forced residence, the feelings and thoughts of a growing-up young man. Textual analysis and the method of text deconstruction were applied to the text of the spontaneous interview.