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Reflections undertaken in this article are a direct result of the research into the fate of Children Born of War (CBOW) in Poland and relate to the methodological, epistemological and ethical tension experienced while working with the interview partners and analyzing their biographical accounts. The encountered difficulties became a root cause of the critical reflection and an impulse to an attempt to systematize the knowledge about the mutual relations of two research traditions: oral history and biographical method which have coexisted over the past few decades, interfering and penetrating each other to such an extent that many researchers began to equate them or consider one of them as a part of the other and vice versa. The chaos of terms and concepts was of great importance in this process. The text also presents similarities and differences of the two approaches both in an epistemological and ethical sense. The attitude towards the narrator, which is mainly the result of different scientific goals that researchers aim at in both research fields was recognized as the fundamental difference. However, underscoring the differences has no purpose of setting boundaries, but it is a postulate to be more careful and bear theoretical and methodological self-awareness of researchers, it is also meant to foster mutual learning and inspiration, which can positively affect the quality of research and analysis.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- Jerzy Kochanowski / Claudia Kraft: Introduction: "Rooms for Manoeuvre" - a New Paradigm for the Research of State Socialist Societies -- Contributions of the volume -- Socialist Space-Time -- Peripheries -- Privacy in State Socialism -- (Negotiated) Transnational Rooms -- Literature -- Part I: Socialist Space-Time -- Maria Hetzer: Negotiating Economic Development and Everyday Needs in Rural GDR and Beyond -- Introduction: Concepts and context -- A society of negotiations -- Golzow: The case study -- Room for Manoeuvre: Showcasing successful socialist agriculture -- Room for Manoeuvre: Gender policies and economic considerations -- Room for Manoeuvre after 1989: Venturing into Tekucha, Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Archives and Sources -- Literature -- Martin Jemelka: The Unified Cooperative Farm - Agrocombine Sluovice: Genesis, Tradition, Interpretation -- Introduction -- The Genesis of the Sluovice Miracle -- Zlín and Sluovice, Bat'a and Čuba: (Dis)‍continued History -- Autonomy, Autarky and Authority: An Attempt to Interpret the Sluovice Miracle -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Juraj Buzalka: Room to Manoeuvre under State Socialism and the Memory of Livelihood -- Economy and memory -- Progress beyond ideology -- State socialist steel makers -- Red count's socialist flat -- Value of the house -- Natural entrepreneur -- Peasant or ethnic memories -- Post-socialist house economy -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Part II: Peripheries -- Duan Sege: A Failed "Marriage": The Attitude of the Peasants and the Government Toward the First Stage of Collectivisation in the Preov Region (1949-1953) -- Preov Region - Social and Cultural Specificity -- Socialist Collectivisation in Czechoslovakia and Disobedience Strategies -- Human Resources -- Archives and Sources -- Literature.

What are the building blocks of the new societal architectures after COVID-19? What are the evolving lifestyle patterns, social connections and relationality, and what can biographical research bring to explore these unprecedented societal circumstances? This first book in a new series Advances in Biographical Research focuses on the place of biographical research in analysing and shaping social futures characterized by physical distancing and isolation, social fragmentation, trauma and vulnerability, including breaks in biographical trajectories. Written by experienced and early career researchers, it demonstrates how biographical research responds to new societal architectures: theoretically and empirically