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Natalya L. Pushkareva
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the RAS
Alexander V. Zhidchenko
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the RAS
‟FERRIS WHEEL”: FEMALE SOCIAL MEMORY OF THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF HYDRAULIC WORKERS IN SIBERIAN CHERYOMUSHKI IN THE 1970S
Pushkareva N.L., Zhidchenko A.V. ‟Ferris wheel”: female social memory of the everyday life of hydraulic workers in Siberian Cheryomushki in the 1970s. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2024, vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 25–30. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-1-25-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2024-30-1-25-30
УДК: 908(571)”20”
EDN: REILAX
Publish date: 2024-02-12
Annotation: The article is devoted to the analysis of female social memory about the life of the village of hydraulic builders and hydropower workers in Cheryomushki, Khakassia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, in the 1970s. The authors consider their main scientific task to be a special study of women’s memories of the life of that time as more topical and representative, than the men’s ones, in the study of the history of everyday life. Correlating memory of life in a new township in the 1970s with the memory of women who lived and worked in similar cities built at hydroelectric power stations a decade and a half earlier (Volzhsky, Kakhovka, Kuybyshev), revealed a number of differences in the axiosphere of different generations of women, as well as the severity of the reaction of residents of Siberian Cheryomushki to social transformations in Russia at the late 1980s and the 90s. Their local symbol was the destruction of the Ferris wheel, which had been built under Soviet rule in a local park, – a sign of lost hopes.
Keywords: deterioration period in USSR in 1964–1981, female collective memory, social memory, urban routine, everyday life, Soviet economy, urban mass culture.
Funding and acknowledgments: The study was carried out within the framework of the Russian Science Foundation project 24-18-00212 «Women’s Family Memory in Russia of the 18th to 21st Centuries: Transmission Forms, Transformation Dynamics, Social Mission»
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Author's info: Natalya L. Pushkareva, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, chief researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the RAS, Moscow, Russia, pushkarev@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6295-3331
Co-author's info: Alexander V. Zhidchenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the RAS, Moscow, Russia, Travel822@yandex.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2948-4008