From Collective Enthusiasm to Individual Self-Realization History of and Experience in the House of Culture, Anadyr’ (Chukotka)

• Published in: Reconstructing the House of Culture p. 29
• Main Authors: Virginie Vaté, Galina Diatchkova
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 15.11.2011
• Edition: NED - New edition, 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied arts; Architecture; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Buildings; Communications; Cultural anthropology; Cultural groups; Cultural history; Cultural institutions; Cultural studies; Enlightenment; Esotericism; Ethnography; Ethnology; Folk culture; Folkloristics; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; Houses; Leisure studies; Mass communication; Practical theology; Propaganda; Recreation; Religion; Religious experience philosophy; Residential buildings; Russian culture; Russian studies; Self realization; Social sciences; Theology
• ISBN: 9780857452757; 0857452754

Anne White has observed that cultural enlightenment, ... as an activity organized by the regime in Soviet-type systems, ... is an area of ideological work. It involves the socialization of adults and children in their spare time through participation in non-professional arts and other cultural activities. ... Its three basic principles are belief in the need to equalize access to culture, belief that such access can change human behaviour, and belief that the party can and must control the nature of the culture which is created and provided. (1990: 1) One might assume that, ater the end of the Soviet