Abstract
The surge of national and historical consciousness jolting Soviet peoples has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. This consciousness is not necessarily chauvinist or even outer-directed; for many, it is rather an inner searching for lost cultural values and traditions. While Russians' popular awareness of their history may have been stimulated by comparable movements of nationalists on their peripheries, the process is not so simple. Since the Krushchev period, historians of the Middle Ages, of pre-Christian beliefs, and of peasant life have had a considerable following, as have scholars of Russian folk art, ritual, and music. Small folk culture museums opened and were supported by private funds in the Brezhnev era, joining a few large outdoor state-organized complexes such as Kizhi. With the very first glimmers of glasnost', writing on Russian folk culture became a growth industry.
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