TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Collective Farm Peasantry and Religious Holidays in the
Volga Region in the Postwar Decade
AU - Khasyanov, Oleg 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
SP  - 442
EP  - 445
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2018.442.445
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2018.442.445
KW  - Soviet peasantry
KW  -post-war
KW  -religion
KW  -celebration
KW  -culture holiday
KW  -agricultural policy
AB  - On the basis of a wide range of published sources used for the first time reconstructs the life of a
religious holiday postwar in Volga village. Festival as a special socio-cultural action plays a crucial role in the
life of every individual and in the social education. Celebratory action serves as a link between the past and the
future and defines this social dominance. Festive culture, serving the opposition daily routine practice, the
importance attached to the social experience of the individual and the collective, ensures the stability of cultural
transmission of collective memory, develops mechanisms of group and social identity. A special feature of
Russian culture holiday was the fact that it is largely shaped by and at the initiative of the authorities, sought
through the festive calendar is not only to develop mechanisms of civil identity design but also give legitimacy
to the existing political system. The establishment of the Soviet system in October, 1917 led to a change in the
paradigm of national culture holiday. The study is based on the approach and methodology microhistorical
“Oral History” that allowed the researcher to expand the source base. As sources were not only archival
materials and oral histories of villagers. The researcher conducted a historiographical analysis of the issue on
which he rightly notes that the post-war religious life of the peasantry did not attract the attention of
researchers to the right degree. On the basis of micro-historical approach the researcher shows the importance
of the religious holiday action among the peasants. According to him, mass participation of Soviet peasants
in the religious celebrations were due to a number of reasons. In particular, farmers sought to preserve their
cultural identity which breaks down under the influence of Soviet agricultural policy.
ER  -