title: Celebrating the First Post-War Anniversary of the October Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe
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metadata.value: Nikonova, O. Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-12-12T21:37:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-12-12T21:37:35Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Nikonova O. Yu. ‘Celebrating the First Post-War Anniversary of the October Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 3, 2019, pp. 743–757.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2019.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16840
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: During the Cold War, the superpowers used their ideologies as symbolic capital in the struggle for new
  spheres of influence. The United States emphasized slogans of freedom and democratic values, and the USSR
  propagated ideas of socialism. One of the key “messages” exploited by Soviet cultural diplomacy in the post-war
  world was the image of the October Revolution as a benchmark for the struggle for a just socialist system. The
  ideas of Great October were most intensively vocalized and reinterpreted during round-number anniversaries.
  In 1947, officially celebrated for the first time not only in the Soviet Union, the thirtieth anniversary of the October
  Revolution had witnessed the initial efforts of the USSR to sovietize Central and Eastern European countries’
  cultures and ideologies. By exploring this case, the article surveys the mechanisms and ways the Soviet festive
  activities and rituals were implanted and adjusted to foreign surroundings. Jubilee celebrations are taken here
  as part of commemorative practices aimed at developing a “socialist” identity in Central and Eastern Europe
  and their further integration into the Soviet cultural and political space of influence. Reconstructing the general
  mode of the holiday and the specifics of its functioning in different countries, the article concludes that, in many
  respects, the first “common” commemoration of the October Revolution abroad represented a “transitional”
  stage where Soviet ideological messages were relatively fuzzy and imposed rituals had to be variably adjusted to
  Eastern European social environments.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by Russian Science Foundation, project No. 16-18-10213 “Soviet Cultural
  Diplomacy during the Cold War (1949–1989)”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet cultural diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: October Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Anniversary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1947
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sovietization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Celebrating the First Post-War Anniversary of the October Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe
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metadata.value: Article
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