scholarly journals THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE LIFE WORLD IN THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Doxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 106-119
Author(s):  
Olena Kolesnyk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Value System ◽  
Life World ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article examines the transformation of the image of the life world, reflected in the problematics and value system of significant works of literature for children of the Soviet and post-Soviet period (on the example of Ukrainian and Russian literature). It is shown that literature for children quite clearly reflects the cultural and social environment, which allows the text to be dated to within a decade, but the best works go beyond their immediate context, which allows them to function in fundamentally new social conditions. The study of books that have an enduring popularity even after the country and society where they were created, have ceased to be, demonstrate remarkable vitality. Studying of the complex of ideas and values that underlie these texts can be helpful for better understanding of the axiological constants that can survive political, social and ideological transformations. Other important theme is the transformation of the reception of a text, were some layers of meaning can be actualized, and some – ignored, whether consciously or subconsciously. The study of selective reception of the text according to the dominant cultural paradigm can also have culturological value. Soviet literature for children cannot be evaluated only as a product of a conservative totalitarian society. It was constantly transformed, which led to the fact that the date of writing the text can almost always be set to the nearest decade. The study of these differences helps to see more clearly the trends of cultural change on a civilizational and global scale. Another aspect is the understanding of Ukrainian literature for children, which was formed within the general Soviet paradigm, although it has always had its own uniqueness. With the disintegration of the Union, and especially with the political events of recent years, Ukrainian literature has clearly separated from Russian in terms of both topics and guidelines. It is worth tracing which tendencies are common to both literatures, which are global, and which are peculiar only to our culture. It is also worth researching the comparison of modern Ukrainian literature with other cultural traditions, both to learn from the experience and to assert the uniqueness of their own art and their own world of life.

scholarly journals Processes of ideologization and de-ideologization in Russian religious dictionary

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-215
Author(s):  
E. Yu. Bulygina ◽  
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T. A. Tripolskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Value System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Ideological Context ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The paper is focused on studying the changing fragments of the Russian picture of the world documented in lexicographic sources of the Soviet era and the post-Soviet period, as well as in contemporary discourse. There are “eternal” concepts in the ideological field of society, reflected in the lexicon of native speakers as ideologemes. These lexemes represent the value system of a particular confession, social group, etc. It is this lexical layer that most acutely responds to socio-economic and political changes in society. The authors analyze the dynamic processes of a pragmatically marked fragment of a dictionary (religious vocabulary) during the 20th – early 21st centuries. The starting point is D. N. Ushakov’s Russian Explanatory Dictionary, which provides a thorough representation of religious lexicon, with interpretations determined by the ideological context of 1930–1940. Today, the strong and weak points of describing the lexicon, that was “alien” for the Soviet period, are obvious. The analysis of vocabulary and corpus data allows us to formulate a hypothesis about the emergence of ambivalent (positive and negative) connotations in the lexical array, which has recently been interpreted as neutral by dictionaries. Thus, when filled with new pragmatic content and reflecting significant changes in the socio-political life of society, the semantics of a religious word, as ideologically marked during a century, changes its connotative halo several times. The ideological and related evaluative components reflect one of the most controversial fragments of the linguistic picture of the world in modern Russia.

Shattered Transition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathijs Pelkmans
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Political Events ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This chapter examines shifts in Kyrgyzstan's ideological landscape. It considers public events that are suggestive of the rhythms of Kyrgyz political life, and the issues that fueled collective action, along with the more slow-paced ideological currents that informed them. To gain an overview of these slower trends, three statues that successively occupied the Ala-Too Square's central 15-meter-high pedestal are discussed: the statue of Vladimir Lenin, the Erkindik (Liberty) statue, and the statute of the national hero Manas. The chapter also discusses the trajectories of socialism, (neo) liberalism, and nationalism in the post-Soviet period and explores how these ideologies translated into political practice, along with the tensions between rhetoric and reality that has characterized Kyrgyzstan's so-called transition. By connecting the succession of statues to the political events unfolding on the Ala-Too Square and beyond, the chapter shows how Kyrgyzstan's unraveling transition became interspersed with recurrent eruptions of political turmoil.

Econationalism in Soviet literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
N.M. Dronin ◽  
J.M. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
World War ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
The Face ◽  
Ecological Thinking ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Literature was a significant vehicle for ecological thinking in the post-World War ii Soviet Union. In early 1950 a group of Russian writers known as ‘villagers’ advanced environmental themes, equating preservation of the environment in the face of frenzied industrialization and modernization with the preservation of Russian culture itself. The work of the villagers – so known for their focus on the history and condition of the Russian village – reached its peak in the 1970s when many of them had gained a following among the Soviet intelligentsia as a result of their critical stand on the socialist transformation of rural areas and their advocacy for the protection of land, forests, and rivers. In this period, environmental, social, and moral motifs were artfully presented in village prose. From the mid-1980s a nationalistic element came to dominate their art. In the post-Soviet period this tendency deepened, leading finally to marginalization of village prose.

scholarly journals RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF THE CULTURE OF THE NUTRITION OF THE CITIZENS OF DAGESTAN IN THE LATEST TIME (THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTIES OF THE XX CENTURY - THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
R I Seferbekov
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Food Preferences ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article traces the processes of transforming the food culture of the peoples of Dagestan into the so-called perestroika years and in the post-Soviet period. Under the culture of nutrition is understood a set of phenomena in the life of a person that are associated with food and nutrition (food intake) - sets of food products, ways of processing them, cooking techniques and culinary products, recipes, traditions of food preferences or food restrictions and prohibitions, Forms of organization of meals, table etiquette and rituals. A special kind of food culture is the food of the urban population. The food of the townspeople differs from that of the rural population, where traditional components predominate. According to the author, globalization has had a major impact on the culture of Dagestani citizens. The greatest influence on the food culture of Dagestanis in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet times was provided by Azerbaijani and Russian cuisines. Especially big changes in the culture of nutrition of the townspeople of Dagestan have occurred since the second half of the 80-s. XX century. They were connected with socio-political events in the USSR, the influence of the global and Russian urbanized culture. In the opinion of the author, the dishes of Russian and European cuisine, in which there are separate elements of traditional Dagestan cuisine, are manifested in food of calendar and religious holidays, wedding celebrations, guests' reception and daily meals constitute the basis of the diet of Dagestan's citizens in recent times. The influence of Azerbaijani cuisine is more felt in the culture of eating of the townspeople of the cities of Derbent and the Dagestan Ogni and to a lesser extent in other cities of Dagestan. In connection with the ethnocultural interactions and mutual influences, the processes of globalization, in recent times, there has been a trend towards the internationalization of the diet of Dagestan's citizens.

scholarly journals Moscow Shi‘ite Communities in the Post-Soviet Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Author(s):  
E. M. Seitov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Religious Networks ◽  
The One ◽  
Autonomous Development ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This article is devoted to the study of Shi‘ite Muslims, natives of Transcaucasia, South Asia, and Southern Dagestan, settled in the Moscow region during the post-Soviet period. The study is based on the author’s field materials (2017–2021). There are three main stages of the formation of Shi‘ite communities in Moscow: activities individual activists in the 1990s; sustainable development in the 2000s; and full-fledged autonomous existence in the 2010s. The article shows that the Shi‘ites in Moscow are not united in the one whole community, moreover, communities representing different ethnic groups are independent of each other. They develop separately; at the same time, some neophytes stand apart. The structure and social relations in Shi‘ite communities largely reproduce patterns of social organization of their homeland. Ethnic, cultural and linguistic borders do not become transparent. Political events and upheavals in the exodus countries activate the national and ethnic feelings of the Moscow Shi‘ites. The Shi‘ite communities have built interstate religious networks, which allow them to continue their autonomous development in the Moscow region.

scholarly journals DIARIES OF M.-S. YAKHYAEV: A BIOGRAPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF TIME

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-658
Author(s):  
M.S. Muslimova ◽  
S.K. Yakhiyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novel ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Post Soviet Period

This study is devoted to the work of the Dagestan prose writer, people's writer of Dagestan, playwright Magomed-Sultan Yakhyaev (1922-2006). The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation information about the diaries of the writer who kept them for more than half a century and to analyze the specifics of the diary genre in the work of the classic of Dagestan Soviet literature, to characterize his attitude to the events of the post-Soviet period, worldview evolution. Since M-S. Yakhyaev devoted his work mainly to the genre of the historical novel, his approaches to assessing the modern era are of interest both from the point of view of studying the work of the author himself, and from the point of view of reflecting the views of the older generation of Russian society on the era of Boris Yeltsin's rule. The diaries have not been published anywhere, their existence was not known until now, they were found on the author's heirs. The material is of interest to biographers and literary scholars dealing with the problems of Dagestan literature. The biographical and historical-literary value of the new genre in the writer's work is substantiated, which makes it possible to see the refraction of the modern history of Russia in the work and worldview of the classic writer of Dagestan literature of the Soviet period; the genre specificity of diaries is revealed M.-S. Yakhyaev.

Russian Parliamentarism Party Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Rostislav F. Turovsky
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Managerial Positions ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is devoted to the study of the party model of Russian parliamentarism in post-soviet period. The focus is on the issues of party representation and its correlation with the distribution of the managerial positions and introduction of collective legislation at State Duma. These issues are examined from the point of view of reaching cross-party consensus and implementation of fair parliament party representation principle. According to the author Russian parliamentarism model aims at reaching full-fledged party consensus that corresponds better to the principles of popular representation than strict parliament polarization along the line of “authority-opposition”. Understanding of those issues by the majority of the players was noted from the very start of the State Duma activities, in spite of the acute conflicts in the 1990-ies.The author draws the conclusion that the equation of party representation continues to grow at the level of managerial positions in the parliament that allows to improve cooperation of the parties and to reduce authority and opposition conflicts. Thereby the Russian parliamentarism model makes an important contribution to the stabilization of socio-political situation of the country.

POST-SOVIET CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kosovan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The author of the publication reviews the photobook “Palimpsests”, published in 2018 in the publishing house “Ad Marginem Press” with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The book presents photos of post-Soviet cities taken by M. Sher. Preface, the author of which is the coordinator of the “Democracy” program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia N. Fatykhova, as well as articles by M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush, which accompany these photos, contain explanation of the peculiarities of urban space formation and patterns of its habitation in the Soviet Union times and in the post-Soviet period. The author of the publication highly appreciates the publication under review. Analyzing the photographic works of M. Sher and their interpretation undertaken in the articles, the author of the publication agrees with the main conclusions of N. Fatykhova, M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush with regards to the importance of the role of the state in the processes of urban development and urbanization in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, but points out that the second factor that has a key influence on these processes is ownership relations. The paper positively assesses the approach proposed by the authors of the photobook to the study of the post-Soviet city as an architectural and landscape palimpsest consisting mainly of two layers, “socialist” and “capitalist”. The author of the publication specifically emphasizes the importance of analyzing the archetypal component of this palimpsest, pointing out that the articles published in the reviewed book do not pay sufficient attention to this issue. Particular importance is attributed by the author to the issue of metageography of post-Soviet cities and meta-geographical approach to their exploration. Emphasizing that the urban palimpsest is a system of realities, each in turn including a multitude of ideas, meanings, symbols, and interpretations, the author points out that the photobook “Palimpsests” is actually an invitation to a scientific game with space, which should start a new direction in the study of post-Soviet urban space.

Radicalization of Dagestan’s youth in the post-Soviet period

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10-4) ◽  
pp. 49-52
Author(s):  
Yusup Guseynov
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Regular Process ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The article is based on archival materials, field ethnographic material and examines the problem of youth radicalism in the post-Soviet period. In the XXI century the second regular process of recruiting young people into the ranks of terrorists began. However, thanks to the official clergy (the Muftiate of the Republic of Dagestan), state authorities, public associations of the Republic, the process of radicalization of young people has stopped.

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