Images of a woman in traditional culture of the northerners and in the Soviet officialdom in the second half of the 30s
English
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History, ethnography, archeology
About author:
A. G. Kiselev Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
N. A. Moldanova Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the policy of involvement of women in the socialist transformations was one of the most important directions of the cultural revolution and creation of a new Soviet man. On the national outskirts of the Soviet state this policy had its own specifics. In the context of women’s discourse, the problem is the definition of the value basis of the Sovietization of aboriginal women.
Objective: to give a comparative description of ideal images of traditional and Soviet women, official representations about aboriginal women and, on this basis, to determine the ways of cultural transition from the tradition to the Soviet modernism, the ways prescribed by ideology.
Research materials: 1) Omsk and Central party press of the second half of the 30s. 2) The sources of personal origin – personal songs of the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds of the 30s, in contrast to the sources of the first and second groups, presenting the reaction of traditional culture to the Sovietism, the results of the perception of traditional of Soviet values. The article uses the conception of discourse as a methodological approach. Materials and methods: sources of work were: 1) Omsk and Central party seal of the second half of the 30s. 2) the Sources of personal origin – personal songs of the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds 30s, in contrast to the sources of the first and second groups, presenting the reaction of traditional culture to the Sovietism, the results of the perception of traditional Soviet values. The article uses the concept of discourse as a methodological approach.
Results and novelty of the research: the analysis of images of a woman of traditional culture and the Soviet officialdom of the pre-war era revealed insurmountable differences between them. Bridging the gap on the valuelevel officialdom was proposed by: rejection of those traditions which, from the point of view of Russian culture, were humiliating for women; removal of children from families and their education in boarding schools; the elimination of illiteracy and development of education; the struggle for modern hygiene; “indigenization” as bringing women to the management. In that way the Soviet Northern narrative, including and processing the history of women of the North, interpreted and criticized the traditional image, called a woman to break up, to go beyond the “everlasting” world in the world of Soviet modernity.
Key words: image of a woman, gender, traditional culture, Soviet modernism, officialdom. Acknowledgments: the authors are grateful for the intellectual generosity, valuable information about traditional culture of the Ob Ugrians to the researchers of the Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development Svetlana Alekseevna Popova, Tatyana Vladimirovna Voldina, Victoria Ivanovna Spodina, the Head of school of the Bear’s Games of the Okrug House of Folk Art of KhMAO – Yugra – Timofey Alekseevich Moldanov, as well as Omsk local historian Aleksander Matveevich Losunov, who assisted in collecting of the necessary materials.
For citation: Kiselyov A. G., Moldanova N. A. Images of a woman in traditional culture of the northerners and in the Soviet officialdom in the second half of the 30s // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 567–584.
N. A. Moldanova Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the policy of involvement of women in the socialist transformations was one of the most important directions of the cultural revolution and creation of a new Soviet man. On the national outskirts of the Soviet state this policy had its own specifics. In the context of women’s discourse, the problem is the definition of the value basis of the Sovietization of aboriginal women.
Objective: to give a comparative description of ideal images of traditional and Soviet women, official representations about aboriginal women and, on this basis, to determine the ways of cultural transition from the tradition to the Soviet modernism, the ways prescribed by ideology.
Research materials: 1) Omsk and Central party press of the second half of the 30s. 2) The sources of personal origin – personal songs of the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds of the 30s, in contrast to the sources of the first and second groups, presenting the reaction of traditional culture to the Sovietism, the results of the perception of traditional of Soviet values. The article uses the conception of discourse as a methodological approach. Materials and methods: sources of work were: 1) Omsk and Central party seal of the second half of the 30s. 2) the Sources of personal origin – personal songs of the Ob Ugrians and Samoyeds 30s, in contrast to the sources of the first and second groups, presenting the reaction of traditional culture to the Sovietism, the results of the perception of traditional Soviet values. The article uses the concept of discourse as a methodological approach.
Results and novelty of the research: the analysis of images of a woman of traditional culture and the Soviet officialdom of the pre-war era revealed insurmountable differences between them. Bridging the gap on the valuelevel officialdom was proposed by: rejection of those traditions which, from the point of view of Russian culture, were humiliating for women; removal of children from families and their education in boarding schools; the elimination of illiteracy and development of education; the struggle for modern hygiene; “indigenization” as bringing women to the management. In that way the Soviet Northern narrative, including and processing the history of women of the North, interpreted and criticized the traditional image, called a woman to break up, to go beyond the “everlasting” world in the world of Soviet modernity.
Key words: image of a woman, gender, traditional culture, Soviet modernism, officialdom. Acknowledgments: the authors are grateful for the intellectual generosity, valuable information about traditional culture of the Ob Ugrians to the researchers of the Ob-Ugric Institute of Applied Researches and Development Svetlana Alekseevna Popova, Tatyana Vladimirovna Voldina, Victoria Ivanovna Spodina, the Head of school of the Bear’s Games of the Okrug House of Folk Art of KhMAO – Yugra – Timofey Alekseevich Moldanov, as well as Omsk local historian Aleksander Matveevich Losunov, who assisted in collecting of the necessary materials.
For citation: Kiselyov A. G., Moldanova N. A. Images of a woman in traditional culture of the northerners and in the Soviet officialdom in the second half of the 30s // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2018; 8(3): 567–584.
