Gunde Dauksyte

After the clash of empires: Women’s stories from Soviet-occupied Karafuto and Lithuania

Building on the concepts of mediation and multidirectional memory, this paper offers a comparative analysis of two memoirs written by women who, at the end of WWII, found themselves in Soviet-occupied territories—Sakhalin in the east and Lithuania in the west. The analysis revolves around two questions: how do the auth...