title: The Soviet Cultural policy and Traditional Rites of the Peoples of the Volga Region: Experience of Interaction
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metadata.value: Lepeshkina, L. Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T16:04:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T16:04:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Lepeshkina L. Yu. ‘The Soviet Cultural policy and Traditional Rites of the Peoples of the Volga Region: Experience of Interaction’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, pp. 725–736.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14990
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper is devoted to the Soviet cultural policy, which was carried out in the 1920–1980s and transformed
  a way of life and traditional rites of the peoples of the Volga region. The main stages of its realization are
  characterized that was caused by the specific actions of the authorities which were initially destroying, and then
  adapting a part of regional traditions for needs of the state. The author identifies three stages of the Soviet cultural
  policy focused on traditional rites of the local population on the basis of the reports on ethnographic expeditions
  to the Volga region and documentation of the Central Executive Committee of the Volga German ASSR, the
  Council of Ministers in the Chuvash ASSR from the central and regional archives: 1 stage (the 1920–1930s) —
  an active fight against religious carry-overs; 2 stage (the 1940–1950s) — the period of silent acceptance of the
  saved elements in ritualism; 3 stage (the 1960–1980s) — a careful condemnation of regional traditional rites and
  an attempt to adapt some of it for development of the Soviet holidays and rites. The party workers’ conviction
  of an opportunity to liquidate this or that traditions by administrative methods did not give the expected results.
  Wedding and funeral rites of the peoples of the Volga region showed the greatest stability in the Soviet times as
  “the well-tried recipes” of overcoming of crisis events. In general, not only ideological factors but also processes
  of urbanization, a growth of interethnic marriages had an influence on traditional rites of the natives of the Volga
  region. The novelty of the research is that traditional rites of the peoples of the Volga region are considered
  from the point of view of the system approach for the first time, which assumes the identification of the steadiest
  elements in it under the strengthening of administrative influence from the state.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet cultural policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the peoples of the Volga region
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditional rites
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wedding
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: funeral rites
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: civil ritualism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Soviet Cultural policy and Traditional Rites of the Peoples of the Volga Region: Experience of Interaction
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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