«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2013. Vol. 2.2

Uncensored Soviet Folklore in the Memories of the Prisoners of Siblag (1930–1940s)

Author(s)
N. S. Petrova
Abstract

The article describes the efficiency of using in folklore studies such type of sources as memories of the Gulag prisoners that contain information important to the uncensored Soviet folklore studies and demonstrate the stability of traditional structures and the appearance of semantic transformations.

Keywords
Uncensored Soviet folklore, traditional place names, fortune telling, interpretation of dreams
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