The village and May Day celebrations in 1970s communist Czechoslovakia : Social events between a tool of the regime and a community holiday

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139660" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139660 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2132493" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2132493</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2022.2132493" target="_blank" >10.1080/02757206.2022.2132493</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The village and May Day celebrations in 1970s communist Czechoslovakia : Social events between a tool of the regime and a community holiday
Original language description
This study focuses on May Day celebrations in communist Czechoslovakia in the Žďár nad Sázavou district of today’s Czech Republic. The communist regime used these celebrations to symbolically communicate several ideological and political messages. By examining one of these messages, the importance of the relationship between the countryside and the city, we see how its presentation changed over time. The variability of this message was caused not only by the changes the communist regime and society underwent during the studied period but also by specific local conditions. This paper concentrates on actors from two villages and argues that celebrations of May Day, an ideological-political holiday, could have been appropriated by local inhabitants as a community event that helped express the unity of the rural community. Holding May Day celebrations that served largely as community events in some villages also interrupted the union of the village and the city in socialist society, one of the messages that was supposed to be communicated by May Day celebrations.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-10734S" target="_blank" >GA19-10734S: Constructs of the Village. A postcolonial approach to the study of Czech society in the 1970s.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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