Allemann, L. The sami of the Kola Peninsula : about the life of an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union / Lukas Allemann ; [transl. by Michael Lomax]. - Rovaniemi : University of Lapland Printing Centre, 2013. - 151 p. : ill., map, portr. ; 25 см. - (Senter for samiske studier, Skriftserie ; 19).

Lukas Allemann memory, his interpretation, perhaps his argument for his own identity and his way of making sense of his life. "Questions like: 'How good or bad is the narrator's memory?' or: 'How honest are his statements?' are mostly based on the generally entertained assumption that the narrative is deficient compared to the event, and that we are dealing with a 'difficult to control source of error' and 'subjective data base'. "47 To this we need to oppose the following. First of all that sources of every kind have their shortcomings. State files or papers, especially in a country with a monistic ideo­ logical system and limited freedom of expression, as was the Soviet Union, are for our purposes hardly more informative as sources. Second, that it is precisely the subjec­ tivity of the narrative interviews that should be seen as a virtue, as has already been explained above. Historical narrative - both my own and that of my informants - is therefore nev­ er mere retelling. As a result: "their [the informants', L.A.] history, their life histories [1] are one thing, the stories they tell about it are another [2]" .48 This is precisely the dif­ ference between experienced [1] and narrated [2] life history. Let us look a little more closely at this important structural difference, which is dealt with in particular in the works of Wolfram Fischer-Rosenthal and Gabriele Rosenthal (1994, 1995, 1997). "When people tell their biographical experiences, these experiences integrated into historical and social reality point beyond the biographee's personal story to a collective history. People's lives take place in a historical-social reality, on the one hand they are embedded in historical structures and processes, and on the other hand people's lives constitute social reality. "49 "Narrated life stories are bound, at their origins, to the present time of their pro­ duction. The narrator's current life situation and his current perspective on life 47 Rosenthal 1994, 129. 48Gerbel/Sieder 1988, 193. 49 Rosenthal 1994, 128. Senterfor samiske studier, Skriftserie nr. 19 18