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Shutas, P. P. SOVIET HOLIDAYS IN THE 1920s AND 1930s AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DOMESTIC POLICY (a case study of the Kola North). Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2026;48(6):32–42. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2026.1349
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SOVIET HOLIDAYS IN THE 1920s AND 1930s AS AN INSTRUMENT OF DOMESTIC POLICY (a case study of the Kola North)
| Shutas P. P. | Regional Museum of Local History |
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Keywords: Soviet holidays Kola North domestic policy 1920s 1930s |
Summary: The article is devoted to the study of Soviet holidays in the 1920s–1930s in the Kola North as an
instrument of the Soviet state’s domestic policy. The relevance of the study is due to the insufficiently studied features
of the formation of Soviet holiday culture in relation to the specified territory. The aim of the study is to examine Soviet
holidays in the Kola North in the 1920s–1930s as a controllable instrument for implementing domestic policy. In
accordance with this, it is necessary to: identify the main functions of holiday policy; analyze the mechanisms for
implementing each of the functions through specific holiday practices; using individual examples, trace the transformation
of local holiday policy in the 1930s and its relationship with nationwide trends. The scientific novelty of the study lies
in the systematization and comprehensive analysis of holiday practices that were previously studied only fragmentarily
in the Kola North, taking into account their organizational, social, and ideological mechanisms. The research suggests
that during this period, Soviet holidays represented a controlled process involving a complex of interrelated organizational
and ideological activities. It has been established that the functioning of the holidays was determined by a combination
of three key areas of their influence: securing resources and coordinating the activities of various agencies, engaging
the population in regulated forms of collective participation, and shaping and disseminating predetermined ideological
attitudes. The dispersed population and multiethnic composition of the Kola North determined both the specifics of the
organization of festive events and the heterogeneity of the perception of agitational and propaganda practices, particularly noticeable in the example of antireligious holiday propaganda in the 1920s. At the same time, the region’s geographical specificity was skillfully used as a practical basis for holding a major interregional sports festival here in 1934. |
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