The Image of Stalin in Soviet Russian Folklore

Bibliographic Data

ID3719246
AuthorsFrank J Miller (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume39
Issue1
Pages50
Publication date1980-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Russian Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/128551
OpenAlexW2315913240
LanguageEN
Citations received5

as the Golden era of folklore scholarship in the Soviet Union, for during these years, folklore, like literature, was a field of scholarly endeavor relatively free from direct government interference.1 The 1925 edict by the Central Committee of the Party allowed the free competition of various groups and currents, and in this atmosphere Formalist scholars as well as followers of the historical and Finnish schools made valuable contributions to the study of Russian folklore.2 But at the beginning of the first five-year plan in 1929, when the publication of literature was put under the control of RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), folklore became the subject of much debate and criticism. Both RAPP and its predecessor PROLETKULT (Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organizations) maintained that folklore was harmful to the Soviet people.3 Adherents of the PROLETKULT called for the eradication of all aspects of folklore and even created a children's PROLETKULT which sought to abolish folktales.4 In criticizing the ideological backwardness of folklore, RAPP branded it a harmful survival of the past which should not be cultivated as art.5 Other groups such as LEF (Left Front of Art), KOMFUT (Communist Futurists), and the followers of Pereversev felt that folklore was the mediocre re

Ancient history · Art · Folklore · Literature · Political science · Russian literature · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Soviet and Russian History

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