The Ruler’s Immortality. Lenin as a Hero of the (Pseudo) Scientific Myth


	Philology: scientific researches Reference: Korolev, S. A. (2012). The Ruler’s Immortality. Lenin as a Hero of the (Pseudo) Scientific Myth. Philology: scientific researches, 4, 18–27. https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=61678 Korolev, S. A. The Ruler’s Immortality. Lenin as a Hero of the (Pseudo) Scientific Myth Abstract: The article is devoted to a quite interesting phenomenon of Lenin’s appearance as a hero of a Russian folk fairy tale during the first years after the Revolution of 1917. First of all the author addresses to the plots related to immortality and revival of the ruler. The author assumes that this phenomenon, in all appearance, is in many ways related to a national myth and a belief rather than a form of folklore and literature. On the other hand, it is underlined that even though there is a certain folklore basis for the ‘fairy tale about Lenin’, certain literary and obvious ideological insights are also involved. Keywords: philology, folklore, fairy tae, myth, rumor, Lenin, life, death, power, body. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Arkhipova A.S., Neklyudov S.Yu. Fol'klor i vlast' v zakrytom obshchestve // NLO. 2010. № 101. 2. Vayskopf M. Krasnyy chudotvorets: Lenin v evreyskoy i khristianskoy traditsiyakh // Kontsept chuda v slavyanskoy i evreyskoy kul'turnoy traditsii. M.: Sefer, 2001. 3. Dubin B.V. Slovo — pis'mo — literatura: Ocherki po sotsiologii sovremennoy kul'tury. M.: NLO, 2001. 4. Zhirmunskiy V.M. Epicheskoe tvorchestvo slavyanskikh narodov i problemy sravnitel'nogo izucheniya eposa. Doklad na IV Mezhdunarodnom s'ezde slavistov. M., 1958. 5. Losev A.F. Dialektika mifa // Losev A.F. Iz rannikh proizvedeniy. M: Pravda, 1990. 6. Meletinskiy E.M. Poetika mifa. 2-e izd., reprintnoe. M.: Izd. firma «Vostochnaya literatura» RAN, 1995. 7. Propp V.Ya. Istoricheskie korni volshebnoy skazki. M.: Labirint, 2000. 8. Pyaskovskiy A.V. Lenin v russkoy narodnoy skazke i vostochnoy legende. M.: Molodaya gvardiya, 1930. 9. Sinyavskiy A.D. Ivan-durak: Ocherk russkoy narodnoy very. M.: Agraf, 2001. 10. Slukhi v istorii Rossii XIX–KhKh vekov. Neformal'naya kommunikatsiya i krutye povoroty rossiyskoy istorii. Sb. statey / pod red. I.V. Narskogo i dr. Chelyabinsk: Kamennyy poyas, 2011

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Korolev, S. A. The Ruler’s Immortality. Lenin as a Hero of the (Pseudo) Scientific Myth