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folklorica-3801	Ivanova, T. G.	The Devastation of Soviet Local Studies and Folkloristics	2021	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5430	293	63	In our opinion, S.O. Shmidt (1997) formulated the reasons for the devastation of Soviet local studies precisely: The fact of the matter is that local studies societies and in general the work of specialists in local studies were an expression of democratic initiatives which sometimes date back to pre-revolutionary traditions and even to the ‘zemstvo’ (an elective district council from 1864 to 1917. According to the formulation of S. O. Shmidt (1989), “what we now call the year 1937 (that is, the worst year of Stalin’s purges – trans.) came for local studies in 1929 and 1930” (p. 16).	cache/folklorica-3801.pdf	txt/folklorica-3801.txt