Evolution of the Ukrainian holiday calendar in the first post-revolutionary years (on materials of the South of Ukraine)
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
The article analyzes the formation and development of the Soviet festive calendar in the South of Ukraine, as the most ethnically diverse region in which there were representatives of various national minorities, which differed not only in the traditional way but also in religious rituals. The main principles of celebratory culture and features of introduction on the basis of repressive and mimicry influence on the population are considered. Reasonable features of the use of holidays for political purposes in Soviet times. The formation and development of the festive calendar during the first decade of Bolshevik power in the territory of Ukraine within the framework of historical georthology was analyzed. Mass holidays and spectacles, due to their scale, integrability, and accessibility, occupy a special place in the hierarchy of Soviet festive culture. Mass holidays can be attributed to dual phenomena, preserving the original syncretism of artistic and utilitarian principles. Evolutionary celebratory culture is traced on the basis of consideration of the first Soviet holiday - the International Day (May 1), which subsequently received official status. Not only Soviet but also modern foreign researchers, in particular Sh. Fitzpatrick, S. Davis, I. Hellbeck, L. Vayola, M. Rolf, S. Plaggenborg, G. von Geldern, R. Kayua, and others were attracted to the development of the issue. It has been shown that the holy policy has passed two stages of development, coinciding with the political periods of the life of the Soviet Union – «Military Communism» and the NEP. Each of them in one way or another influenced the attitude of the authorities towards festive policy, which directly influenced the festivity in the legislative sense. The relationship between festive politics and anti-religious campaigns is investigated. The celebration of the International Day (May 1) in Odesa, Mykolayiv and Kherson in the first years of Soviet power was analyzed.
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Yulia Matukhno
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