Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian VillageWoodrow Wilson Center Press, 2005 - 388 pages In a small village beside a reed-lined lake in the Russian north, a cluster of farmers has lived for centuries--in the time of tsars and feudal landlords; Bolsheviks and civil wars; collectivization and socialism; perestroika and open markets. Solovyovo is about the place and power of social memory. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork in that single village, it shows how villagers configure, transmit, and enact social memory through narrative genres, religious practice, social organization, commemoration, and the symbolism of space. Margaret Paxson relates present-day beliefs, rituals, and practices to the remembered traditions articulated by her informants. She brings to life the everyday social and agricultural routines of the villagers as well as holiday observances, religious practices, cosmology, beliefs and practices surrounding health and illness, the melding of Orthodox and communist traditions and their post-Soviet evolution, and the role of the yearly calendar in regulating village lives. The result is a compelling ethnography of a Russian village, the first of its kind in modern, North American anthropology. |
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... Kolkhoz after the Fall By the time I arrived in Solovyovo for the first time , the institution of the kolkhoz had changed size and configuration several times since its in- ception - from two villages per kolkhoz brigade ( work team ) ...
... Kolkhoz and Obshchina After collectivization , the kolkhoz replaced the obshchina as a central vil- lage institution , and created a new suprafamilial group , one that pulled labor out of family - based groups and into local work ...
... kolkhoz / With a naked little ass ! 28 The kolkhoz was certainly not a broadly popular development in the village of Solovyovo and the chastushka was a way of airing this dissent . 27. " Eto molot , eto serp / Vot on nash sovetskii gerb ...
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Iuliias Hands | 1 |
Memorys Topography | 12 |
Setting the Village in Space and Time | 28 |
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