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Soviet ideological mandates and colonial governance fundamentally restructured the disciplines of folklore and ethnology in the Western borderlands, resulting in the hybridization of traditions, institutional divides, and complex individual strategies that challenge simple resistance-collaboration binaries. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

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The aim is to investigate how folklore and ethnology evolved under Soviet influence, shaped by ideological shifts and cultural policies.

May 18, 2026Journal of American Folklore

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content

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IBIlze Boldāne-Zeļenka

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This monograph examines folklore's interaction with power in post-socialist borderlands, suggesting new cultural insights.

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The aim is to investigate how folklore and ethnology evolved under Soviet influence, shaped by ideological shifts and cultural policies.
Multidisciplinary analysis by an international team of 15 authors from diverse fields such as folklore studies and history.
Examination of folklore's role during different Soviet regimes from Stalinism to the late socialist era.
Contextualization within geopolitical influences and contemporary cultural conflicts.
Identified the conflict between Soviet cultural policies and local traditions, revealing unintended cultural resilience.
Showed that diverse strategies existed beyond collaboration or resistance, exemplified by the Dievturi movement.
Demonstrated how the Soviet regime's interventions in scientific classifications shaped folklore and ethnography's evolution.

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Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenka (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0aac2b5ba8ef6d83b6fb84 https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.139.552.14

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May 18, 2026Journal of American Folklore

Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content

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Authors

IBIlze Boldāne-Zeļenka

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Overview

This monograph examines folklore's interaction with power in post-socialist borderlands, suggesting new cultural insights.

Key Points

The aim is to investigate how folklore and ethnology evolved under Soviet influence, shaped by ideological shifts and cultural policies.
Multidisciplinary analysis by an international team of 15 authors from diverse fields such as folklore studies and history.
Examination of folklore's role during different Soviet regimes from Stalinism to the late socialist era.
Contextualization within geopolitical influences and contemporary cultural conflicts.
Identified the conflict between Soviet cultural policies and local traditions, revealing unintended cultural resilience.
Showed that diverse strategies existed beyond collaboration or resistance, exemplified by the Dievturi movement.
Demonstrated how the Soviet regime's interventions in scientific classifications shaped folklore and ethnography's evolution.

Cite This Study

Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenka (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0aac2b5ba8ef6d83b6fb84 https://doi.org/10.5406/15351882.139.552.14

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