„We were celebrating the october and the May day”: names of the holidays in the Soviet period in the arkhangelsk dialects
The article, written on the basis of material in the Arkhangelsk dialects, is devoted to the “new” holidays that appeared (the October, the Victory Day, the May Day) or acquired significance (the New Year) in the Russian North in the Soviet period. Their dialect names are described, with special att...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:34f8345cb9c24f42a28bd7f9882c8872 2024-01-07T09:42:05+01:00 „We were celebrating the october and the May day”: names of the holidays in the Soviet period in the arkhangelsk dialects Zhanna A. Panina 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.31168/2619-0877.2018.1.12 https://doaj.org/article/34f8345cb9c24f42a28bd7f9882c8872 RU rus Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies https://cesjournal.ru/index.php/cesjournal/article/view/40/40 https://doaj.org/toc/2619-0877 https://doaj.org/toc/2949-3811 doi:10.31168/2619-0877.2018.1.12 2619-0877 2949-3811 https://doaj.org/article/34f8345cb9c24f42a28bd7f9882c8872 Центральноевропейские исследования, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 234-248 (2022) russian north arkhangelsk dialects soviet era holidays History (General) D1-2009 Language and Literature P article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.31168/2619-0877.2018.1.12 2023-12-10T01:37:41Z The article, written on the basis of material in the Arkhangelsk dialects, is devoted to the “new” holidays that appeared (the October, the Victory Day, the May Day) or acquired significance (the New Year) in the Russian North in the Soviet period. Their dialect names are described, with special attention paid to the manner in which dialects adapted official names (for example, the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution became October). In addition, the ceremonial content of the holidays of the Soviet era (the preparation and use of special festive foods and drinks, the preparation of the house for the holiday, including its cleaning and decoration, the tradition of gost’ba, or visiting relatives in the holidays) are analysed. Further, the study considers the beginnings of omens and regulations, mainly related to the agrarian labour cycle (start and end of field work) and changes in nature (ice drift and river-freezing, or rekostav). These began to take shape around the most important “new” holidays — Oktyábr’skaya (October) and Pervomai (May Day). Also discussed is the interaction of the Soviet holidays with holidays on the church calendar that were near in time (May Day — Passover, New Year — Christmas) and agrarian-labour holidays marking the completion of seasonal field work (Oktyábr’skaya — sowing (obsevnaia). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arkhangelsk Russian North Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Central-European Studies 1 234 250 |
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The article, written on the basis of material in the Arkhangelsk dialects, is devoted to the “new” holidays that appeared (the October, the Victory Day, the May Day) or acquired significance (the New Year) in the Russian North in the Soviet period. Their dialect names are described, with special attention paid to the manner in which dialects adapted official names (for example, the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution became October). In addition, the ceremonial content of the holidays of the Soviet era (the preparation and use of special festive foods and drinks, the preparation of the house for the holiday, including its cleaning and decoration, the tradition of gost’ba, or visiting relatives in the holidays) are analysed. Further, the study considers the beginnings of omens and regulations, mainly related to the agrarian labour cycle (start and end of field work) and changes in nature (ice drift and river-freezing, or rekostav). These began to take shape around the most important “new” holidays — Oktyábr’skaya (October) and Pervomai (May Day). Also discussed is the interaction of the Soviet holidays with holidays on the church calendar that were near in time (May Day — Passover, New Year — Christmas) and agrarian-labour holidays marking the completion of seasonal field work (Oktyábr’skaya — sowing (obsevnaia). |
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