The Development of Soviet Folkloristics / Dana Prescott Howell.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Scholarly heritage from the prerevolutionary period -- ch. 2. Critical experiences : revolution, regional studies, radical pressures, and government policy -- ch. 3. Research organizations and activities in the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP) (1921-1927) -- ch. 4. Theoretical development in the years of NEP : the "sociology of folklore" -- ch. 5. Folkloristics in the years of the first five-year plan (1928-1932) : intradisciplinary differences and challenges from literary circles -- ch. 6. Folklore as literature : the years of the second five-year plan (1933-1937) -- ch. 7. Folkloristics as ideology : the rejection of the "sociology of folklore" and the reclaiming of "popular" culture.

Crucial to the world history of folkloristics is this key study, first published in 1992, of the development of folklore study in the Soviet Union. Nowhere else has political ideology been so heavily involved with folklore scholarship. Professor Howell has examined in depth the institutional development of folkloristics in the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century, concentrating especially upon the transition from pre-revolutionary Russian to Soviet Marxist folkloristics. The study of folklore moved from narrator studies to the description of the relationship of lore to large.

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