Stalinism, 1928–1940

Shearer, David R.

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“…Specifically, Stalin introduced into the village life the kolkhozy , or cooperative farm organizations, and the sovkhozy , or state farms, which all peasants had to join. Those who tried to oppose the collectivization were mostly identified as kulaks , or rich land-owners, and got either deported or killed (Shearer 2006;Thompson 1990;Ward 1993). Some people cannot still make sense of what happened and why such measures were taken.…”

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Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

Siragusa¹

2017

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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars, and policy makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.Laura Siragusa is a linguistic anthropologist working within a program on Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has co-edited a special issue on language sustainability for the journal Anthropologica and published miscellaneous articles on Vepsian matters in Sibirica, JEFUL , and Folklore.

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Section: Farm Collectivization and The 1930smentioning

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Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

Siragusa¹

2017

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“…Stalin introduced into the village life the kolkhozy, or co-operative farm organisations, and the sovkhozy, or state farms, which all peasants had to join. Those who tried to oppose the collectivisation were mostly identified as kulaks, or rich land-owners, and were either deported or killed (Shearer 2006;author's field notes 2010. The animals that Veps highly regarded as a food provision and part of their sebr (Veps 'community') also began to fade away.…”

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“…In the mid-1930s, Stalin began to mistrust certain ethnic groups as he suspected they could have loyalties outside of the Soviet Union (Shearer 2006: 211). Among those groups were Germans, Poles, Finns, and the Asian groups of the Far East (Shearer 2006). Consequently, Finns and other ethnic groups closely associated with them became the primary target of Stalin's repressions and of the great mass purges of 1937-1938.…”

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“…Stalin introduced into the village life the kolkhozy, or co-operative farm organisations, and the sovkhozy, or state farms, which all peasants had to join. Those who tried to oppose the collectivisation were mostly identified as kulaks, or rich land-owners, and were either deported or killed (Shearer 2006;author's field notes 2010, 2013. The animals that Veps highly regarded as a food provision and part of their sebr (Veps 'community') also began to fade away.…”

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“…Among those groups were Germans, Poles, Finns, and the Asian groups of the Far East (Shearer 2006). Consequently, Finns and other ethnic groups closely associated with them became the primary target of Stalin's repressions and of the great mass purges of 1937-1938.…”

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Monolingual and Bilingual Practices: Reversing Power Relations during a Festivity in Pondala

Siragusa¹

2015

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Abstract:This paper aims to demonstrate how people can shift prevailing power relations when engaging in distinct bilingual practices, especially in convivial settings in a remote, yet familiar to the speakers, rural environment. My paper is based on extensive fieldwork conducted among Veps, a Finno-Ugric population, traditionally living in rural settlements in north-western Russia. Most elderly Vepsian villagers are bilingual and can speak Vepsian, their heritage language, as well as Russian. In their daily bilingual practices, they tend to conform to the overarching language ecology and to employ Vepsian and/or Russian, depending on the dominant forces (including language ideologies) present at the time of speech. This often means speaking Russian in the presence of Russian-only speakers and in more institutional settings. Such practices tend to match ideologies and language behaviours which already emerged during the Tsarist era and Soviet times. However, by introducing a vignette situated in Pondala, a Vepsian village in Vologda Oblast, I show how Veps can reverse uneven relations of power once the ordinary social dynamics are shaken. This paper founds its argumentation on three key concepts: language ecology, and power and agency in the heritage language.

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Stalinism, 1928–1940

Cited by 5 publications

References 412 publications

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

Promoting Heritage Language in Northwest Russia

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Monolingual and Bilingual Practices: Reversing Power Relations during a Festivity in Pondala

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