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Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands

Socialist in Form, National in Content

Simon J Bronner editor Elo-Hanna Seljamaa editor Toms Kencis editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:8th Dec '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands cover

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.

ISBN: 9781666906530

Dimensions: 240mm x 159mm x 24mm

Weight: 644g

302 pages