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The Rites of Rulers: Ritual in Industrial Society--The Soviet Case.
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1982
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EducationHistorical SociologyCultural TheoryCultural StudiesReligious SystemsAbbreviations Introduction PartCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesHistorical EvidenceCultural PracticeMaterial CultureIllustrations AcknowledgementsCultureIndustrial SocietyAnthropologySocial AnthropologyCultural AnthropologyRitual StudiesSoviet SocietySocialism
List of illustrations Acknowledgements and abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Theory and Organisation of Ritual: 1. Ritual and related concepts 2. Ritual in Soviet society: a theoretical analysis 3. The beliefs and ritual of Soviet Marxism-Leninism as political religion 4. The organisation of Soviet ritual Part II. The Nature of Soviet Socialist Rituals: 5. Familial life-cycle ritual 6. Rituals of initiation into social or political collectives 7. Labour ritual 8. Holidays of the calendric cycle and their ritual 9. Ritual of the military-patriotic tradition 10. The mass political holidays of the revolutionary tradition: a historical review, 1918-1978 Part III. Selected Theoretical Issues in Soviet Ritual: 11. Analysis of Soviet ritual symbolism 12. Syncretism in Soviet symbolism 13. The impact of Soviet socialist ritual 14. Conclusion: ritual in modern society - a comparative analysis Appendices Bibliography Index.