Rolf Malte Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917-1991 9780822962397

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Автор: Rolf Malte
Название: Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917-1991
Перевод названия: Рольф Малт: Советские массовые фестивали, 1917-1991
ISBN: 9780822962397
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Социология: обычаи и традиции

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ISBN-10: 082296239X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 30.07.2013
Серия: Series in russian & east european studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations (black and white)
Размер: 153 x 237 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: European history
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Mass festivals were a trademark of twentieth-century authoritarianism, as seen in fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and elsewhere. But nowhere was this phenomenon more prevalent than in the Soviet Union. Despite being a dominant feature of Soviet culture, these public spectacles have been largely overlooked as objects of study by historians. Originally published in German, Malte Rolf’s highly acclaimed work examines the creation and perpetuation of large-scale celebrations such as May Day, the anniversary of the October Revolution, Harvest Day, and others throughout the Soviet era. He chronicles the overt political agendas, public displays of power, forced participation, and widespread use of these events in the Soviet drive to eradicate existing cultural norms and replace them with new icons of Soviet ideology. Rolf shows how the new Red Calendar became an essential tool in redefining celebrations in the Soviet Union. Rolf traces the roots of Soviet mass festivals in disparate multi-ethnic celebrations, protests, and street marches during the late imperial era. He then contrasts these with post-revolutionary events that sought to dissolve ethnic rituals and unify the masses. By the end of the civil war, the Bolsheviks had a well-defined calendar of events and began to dictate the forms of public celebration in accordance with party rhetoric. In distant regions, organisers attempted to follow the models of Moscow and Leningrad, despite budgetary constraints and local resistance. In many outlying areas a hybridisation of events developed as local customs merged with party mandates. People often made use of official holidays to adopt their own agendas, yet continued to follow the line of an official Soviet culture. Mass festivals were thus an important tool for Sovietising the cultural landscape. After the Second World War, the Soviets exported their festival culture to Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which resulted in a melding of Soviet guidelines with national cultural forms. Additionally, Rolf compares and contrasts Soviet mass spectacles with mass events in Italy, Germany, and the United States to reveal their similar influence despite divergent political, cultural, and social systems. In the Soviet Union, mass festivals continued through the time of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and up until perestroika, despite their fading political impact. Rolf finds that in the end, Soviet celebrations became effectively ingrained in Russia’s post-Soviet national memory, which ironically was the intent of the original festival planners.

Soviet Mass Festivals, 1917-1991, Rolf Malte