Soviet Union Remembered : Documenting Visual Material for Central Asian Area Studies

如上所述，记录、保存和传播关于人们在日常生活中所经历的事情以及他们与苏维埃政府共产党的意识形态和政治结构的关系的定性数据的任务是非常紧迫和重要的。这项任务的紧迫性来自于这样一个事实，即许多经历过苏联生活的人，以及那些对苏联时期人们的生活有深入而详细的了解的人，都在变老，其中许多人已经去世。它们带走了数据，如果收集、保存和分发得当，这些数据可以作为档案和其他书面历史资料的重要补充。如上所述，选择方法、访谈人数、经济、社会、种族和宗教地位的差异都会影响访谈的结果。然而，这种项目为理解社会主义生活和政治结构提供了新的信息来源。该项目的主要成果在伊斯坦布尔（欧亚研究会议，3月）、韩国（IICAS年会）、斯德哥尔摩口述历史研讨会、剑桥大学（社会人类学系）口述历史研讨会等国际研讨会上发表。这些讲习班、会议和研讨会介绍了这些数据，并作为接收关于如何保存和传播这些数据的反馈的场所。因此，本项目的下一个挑战和任务是设计、建立和实现中亚日常生活口述历史数据库。

As indicated above, the task of recording, preserving and disseminating the qualitative data on what people experienced in their daily lives and on their relations to the ideology and political structure of the Soviet government Communist party is very urgent and important one. The urgency of this task comes from the fact that many of those who experienced Soviet life and those who have in-depth and detailed knowledge about how people lived at Soviet times are getting older with many of these people passing away. With them, they take away the data which, if properly collected, preserved and distributed, can serve as an essential supplement to the archival and other written sources of history. As indicated above, the selection method, number of interviewed and disparity in their economic, social, ethnic and religious status impacts the outcome of the interviews. Nevertheless, this kind of project provides a new source of information for understanding Socialist life and political structure. The major outcomes of this project were presented during international workshops in Istanbul (Eurasian Studies conference, March), South Korea (IICAS annual conference), Oral History Workshop in Stockholm,Oral History Workshop in Cambridge University (Department of Social Anthropology) and many others.These workshops, conference and seminars presented the data and served as venues for receiving feedback on how to preserve and disseminate this data. Therefore, the next challenge and task of this project is to design, build and functionalize the data-base on the oral history of everyday life in Central Asia.