Теоретичното наследство на В. И. Ленин и някои въпроси на изучаването на фолклора
V. I. Lenin’s Theoretical Heritage and Some Problems of the Folklore Study

Summary/Abstract: The question about the meaning and influence of Lenin’s works upon contemporary folkloristics can be viewed from various aspects. The most fruitful of these appears to be the one, in which Lenin’s theoretical heritage is considered as a methodological foundation of the folklore science. Two problems have been given basic attention in the article by way of this approach: 1) The interrelation between folklore culture and non-folklore culture in the light of Lenin’s thesis about the two cultures within every national culture; and 2) The role of folklore (alongside with language) as an important feature of the ethnic culture. In connection with the first problem the author analyzes the split of the integral cultural process in the class societies where a specialized culture of a non-folk type set up of the folklore culture. On the basis of Lenin’s conception about the dialectically controversial character of the culture in class societies he emphasizes the need to investigate how non-folklore culture is being adopted under the conditions of folklore and to trace the dependence between this process and the retention of the systemic character of folklore as a type of artistic culture. Lenin’s conception about the nations’ sell-determination presents a basis for the treatment of the second problem. The author analyzes the differences in the stability of language and folklore as characteristic features of the ethnic group, as well as the systemic character of folklore as a determining factor for its historically transitional character. Notwithstanding that however, folklore retains its function as a determinant of the nation, as a differentiating mark with respect to phenomena of the same class (folklore culture, or its relics) in the cultures of other nations.

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