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Women’s Autobiographical Narratives: Soviet Presentations of Self

In Eva Hoffman’s moving memoir of her emigration from Poland to North America, she describes the constructed nature of memory in reference to another earlier Jewish emigrant: “The America of her time gave her certain categories within which to see herself – a belief in self-improvement, in perfectibility of the species, in moral uplift – and these categories led her to foreground certain parts of her own experience, and to throw whole chunks of it into the barely visible background.”1 These three excellent edited collections of Soviet women’s life stories show that the same was clearly true, in different, but even more exaggerated ways, in Soviet Russia. The collections are part of a recent outpouring of memory from the former Soviet Union in the form of autobiography, published diaries, and oral interviews.2 This outpouring stems in part from the post-Soviet