- PII
- S0869-54150000616-0-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S50000616-0-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue №6
- Pages
- 141-157
- Abstract
- The article draws on the comparative analysis of data about the Belovodie legend, that have been summarized by Kirill Chistov, and new field materials pertaining to it. The author traces certain patterns in the functioning of the legend in the 20th century: 1) it continued to exist in this period at least among those local groups of old-believers where it had been present during the 19th century; 2) among the factors that prolonged the functioning of the legend, there were social and political events and conditions of the Soviet time, that is the revolution, the civil war, and especially the collectivization, as well as the predominantly repressive character of Soviet policies toward religion (and toward radical old-believer movements in particular). All that came to threaten once again the established forms of social-economic and religious organization of the old-believers. In search for a solution, many of them resorted to typical kinds of religious protest which took the shape of eschatological or Utopian sentiments that would revive the traditional Belovodie legend. The fact that attests to this is the emergence of a new locality for Belovodie - the Alaskan one - which might have been related to rumors about the movement of a part of old-believers to that American state.
- Keywords
- Russian folklore studies, utopian legend of Belovodie, old-believers, Kirill Chistov, Lykovy
- Date of publication
- 01.12.2010
- Year of publication
- 2010
- Number of purchasers
- 2
- Views
- 700
RAS Social ScienceСоциологические исследования Sotsialogicheski issledovania
- ISSN (Print) 0132-1625
- ISSN (Online) 3034-6010
ALASKA - THE LAST FRONTIER OF BELOVODIE?
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