Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands

Introduction: The Analytics of 'Socialist in Form, National in Content' in the Soviet Western Borderlands Toms Ķencis Part I. An Inherent Paradox: National Form and Socialist Content Chapter 1. Folklore and Nationalism in the Soviet Western Borderlands Toms Ķencis Chapter 2. Bringing the Folk Community into the Future: On the Socialist Content of Communist Folkloristics Joseph Grim Feinberg Chapter 3. The Lithuanian Folklore Movement and Academe: Transforming Rural Tradition Austė Nakienė Part II. Multivocal Socialism: Agents and Agendas Chapter 4. Being in Between: Laine Mesikäpp and Staged Practices of Estonian Traditional Songs Janika Oras Chapter 5. Ideological Tuning of Latvian Folk Ornament Digne Ūdre Chapter 6. The Dievturi Movement under the Soviet Regime Gatis Ozoliņš Part III. Folk and the People: Education and Control Chapter 7. On Self-Folklorization: Folk Art in Late Socialist Era Poland Ewa Klekot Chapter 8. Folkloristics in Moldova: Relations between Discipline and Performance Jennifer R. Cash Chapter 9. The Influence of Soviet Authority on the Formation of Latvian Staged Folk Dance Elīna Gailīte Part IV. Post-war Academia: Sovietization of the Discipline Chapter 10 New Songs for a New Life: Soviet Folklore and Folkloristics in Western Ukraine Pavlo Artymyshyn and Roman Holyk Chapter 11. Confronting Soviet Colonialism: Folkloristics in Early Soviet Estonia and East Germany Kaisa Langer Chapter 12. The Search for Workers’ Folklore in Hungary Gabriella Vámos Afterword: Ghosts of Socialist Folkloristics in the Post-Soviet World Simon J. Bronner About the Contributors