Les fêtes – instrument de justification du discours politique dans les sociétés totalitaires
Festivals - an instrument for the justification of speech Policy in totalitarian societies

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to analyze a multidimensional perspective of holidays and how they get to be part of the process of legitimation of political power. Being the space of the exceptional and relaxation, the public holidays are meant to «remove» the individual from the daily and usual life and switch to another plan: at the show, the grandeur and ceremony fixed to certain symbols and rituals that contribute to group cohesion. Therefore, in certain historical eras, under different political regimes, but particularly, the totalitarian, the political power tried to wear of charms and symbolic atmosphere of holidays to legitimize the ideology, to promote new values and ideals, to strengthen the group over which it extends. In what follows, we wanted to highlight some of the ways in which the totalitarian societies, mainly Soviet society, the public holidays become educational opportunities and part of the national cultural policy in the design and standardization of human consciousness and the strengthening of state institutions.

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