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Toms Kencis, Simon J. Bronner, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa - Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands

Socialist in Form, National in Content

Av Toms Kencis, Simon J. Bronner, Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

Del i serien Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities

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Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology.
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Toms Kencis is lead researcher and Head of the Scientific Council at the University of Latvia Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art.Simon J. Bronner is dean of the College of General Studies and distinguished professor of social sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Elo-Hanna Seljamaa is associate professor of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of folkloristics and ethnology in Europe behind the Iron Curtain – on the Western fringes of the Communist empire, once ruled from Moscow. It offers a close and critical analysis of research traditions in the countries, ranging from the Baltic states to Central Europe and Ukraine – all affected by Marxist-Leninist ideology. As a work on folklore, politics, and nationalism, on resilience and submissiveness, it is also a systematic study of Soviet colonialism and a critical reflection of its legacies today.

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