Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
THE OLD MEN AS STATESMEN... AND THE EMANCIPATED MOUNTAIN WOMAN THE ANALYSIS OF THE STATE LABOR MOBILIZATION FEATURES OF THE KARACHAI POPULATION IN THE EXTREME CONDITIONS OF 1943
Abstract
To achieve the goal a complex of archival documents was formed, the analysis of historiographic materials was carried out; a methodological concept of research was developed. Having included the basic principles of scientific knowledge (historicism, objectivity) in the methodological potential, the author used the anthropological theory and the theory of the constructing social reality, thereby ensuring the interdisciplinary approach. Having analyzed the reporting documents of the organization and the conduct of the meetings of the Karachai population in 1943, the author described the actions of regional authorities with the aim of the mobilizing the population of the region for the restoration of the territorial economy after the German occupation of the region. The Party and the Soviet functionaries adequately assessed the real state of Karachai society, recognized the preservation of its former social institutions and consciously chose to rely on the archaic traditions, supported the archaic universals for more effective manipulation by the mass consciousness for the sake of labor mobilization of the broad sections of the population in the public interest. The preservation of a significant part of the institutions of the former traditional Karachai society and their role in determining the social context of Kara-chai everyday life is explained by the fact that the anthropological type can be preserved and reproduced for another two or three consecutive generations before it is finally destroyed. Each previous generation is able to transfer its experience and the next generation reproduces this experience, building and realizing its life strategies. Although the approaches and the methods chosen by the state openly contradicted the declared idea of forming a "new" person and the results of the cultural revolution, at the same time, the preservation of the traditional culture was conditioned by the nature of the totalitarian system that developed during the first decades after the revolutionary decades in the country.
