title: Children in “Anti-Religious Offensive” at the Turn of the 1920s–1930s
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metadata.value: Slezin, A. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:42:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:42:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Slezin A. A. ‘Children in “Anti-Religious Offensive” at the Turn of the 1920s–1930s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 956–973. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.416 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.416
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44750
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article studies the activities of “godless” youngsters in the initial period of USSR continuous collectivization
  through the prism of intergenerational relations in the Russian village. Both archival documents and
  materials of periodicals, methodological publications of the 1920s–1930s were used as the main sources. Priority
  attention was paid to the analysis of the relationship in the spiritual sphere of the peasant representatives of the
  “children of the revolution” generation (those whose childhood fell on the first post-revolutionary fifteen years)
  and the “revolutionary turning point” generation (born at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries). Pioneers and other
  young activists were involved in the “all-Union anti-religious offensive” officially announced at the end of 1929,
  during which adherents of some religion were declared class enemies. The authorities relied on the younger
  generation in the atheism in the village believing that children have fewer prejudices and it is easier to involve them
  in a confrontation with believing “fathers”. Much attention in the article was paid to highlighting the role of children
  in changing the rural festive culture, the peculiarities of the spread of atheistic views among children through the
  media, school, and leisure practices. The position, according to which home education was declared extremely
  harmful, was officially approved. The school was perceived not only as a tool for raising children, but also as a
  lever for re-education of parents through their children. In the activities of pioneers, there were clear elements if
  not of teaching, then of a challenge to the elders. The authorities were forced to maneuver under the influence of
  mass protests: the “attack on religion” changed, but continued. Under its influence, the confrontation between young atheists and peasant adherents of traditional religions escalated and had devastating consequences for
  the peasant continuity of generations.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 22-18-00132 “Generation of
  the ‘revolutionary turning point’ in the fate of the Russian countryside in the first third of the 20th century”, https://
  rscf.ru/project/22-18-00132/
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 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: children
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: generations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fathers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: youth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pioneers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: village
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peasants
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: atheists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Collectivization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Children in “Anti-Religious Offensive” at the Turn of the 1920s–1930s
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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