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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
“How Well Do You Know YourKrai?” TheKraevedenieRevival and Patriotic Politics in Late Khrushchev-Era Russia
Contributor:
Donovan, Victoria
Published:
Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, 2015
Published in:
Slavic Review, 74 (2015) 3, Seite 464-483
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5612/slavicreview.74.3.464
ISSN:
0037-6779
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This article examines the state-sponsored rise of local patriotism in the post-1961 period, interpreting it as part of the effort to strengthen popular support for and the legitimacy of the Soviet regime during the second phase of de-Stalinization. It shifts the analytical focus away from the Secret Speech of 1956, the time of Nikita Khrushchev's full-scale assault on Iosif Stalin and his legacy, to the Twenty-Second Party Congress of 1961, the inauguration of a utopian and pioneering plan to build communism by 1980. I consider how this famously forward-looking program gave rise to an institutionalized retrospectivism, as Soviet policymakers turned to the past to mobilize popular support for socialist construction. I examine how this process played out in the Russian northwest, where Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inward, to examine their local history and traditions, and to reread these through a socialist lens.