Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.Li Bennich-Björkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: On Living through the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States 2. Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their Context 3. Everyday Life, Power and Agency in Soviet Latvia 4. Before we Return Home: The Collective Strategies of Latvian World War II Refugees Adapting to Swedish Society 5. Working through Mature Socialism: Private and Public in the Estonians' Meaning-Making of the Soviet past 6. Tell me Your Story – Russians in Independent Estonia 7. Discussing Ethnic Identities with Russian-Speakers in Rural Estonia and Latvia 8. Exit from Communism: Career Decisions of the Lithuanian Young Communist Functionaries 9. Catching up with the West? An Insider’s Perspective from Lithuania 10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions – the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai 11. Basic Human Values’ Dynamics and Biographical Findings

Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.Li Bennich-Björkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: On Living through the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States 2. Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their Context 3. Everyday Life, Power and Agency in Soviet Latvia 4. Before we Return Home: The Collective Strategies of Latvian World War II Refugees Adapting to Swedish Society 5. Working through Mature Socialism: Private and Public in the Estonians' Meaning-Making of the Soviet past 6. Tell me Your Story – Russians in Independent Estonia 7. Discussing Ethnic Identities with Russian-Speakers in Rural Estonia and Latvia 8. Exit from Communism: Career Decisions of the Lithuanian Young Communist Functionaries 9. Catching up with the West? An Insider’s Perspective from Lithuania 10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions – the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai 11. Basic Human Values’ Dynamics and Biographical Findings

Aili Aarelaid-Tart is Research Professor and head of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia.Li Bennich-Björkman is Skytte Professor of Political Science and Eloquence at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: On Living through the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States 2. Locating Memory within History: Baltic Lives in their Context 3. Everyday Life, Power and Agency in Soviet Latvia 4. Before we Return Home: The Collective Strategies of Latvian World War II Refugees Adapting to Swedish Society 5. Working through Mature Socialism: Private and Public in the Estonians' Meaning-Making of the Soviet past 6. Tell me Your Story – Russians in Independent Estonia 7. Discussing Ethnic Identities with Russian-Speakers in Rural Estonia and Latvia 8. Exit from Communism: Career Decisions of the Lithuanian Young Communist Functionaries 9. Catching up with the West? An Insider’s Perspective from Lithuania 10. Mobilizing Capitals during Transitions – the Stories of Toomas and Nikolai 11. Basic Human Values’ Dynamics and Biographical Findings