Kotkin, Konstantin. 2019. Images of a Soviet Utopia: Between the Oblivion of Tradition and the Memory of it (Drawings of Sami Schoolchildren at the Turn of the 1920s and 1930s from V. Charnoluskiy’s Archive). Kunstkamera. No 1(3): 105-116.

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Abstract

Paper examines part of collection of the Kola Sami`s pupils drawings from archive of theethnographer V. V. Charnoluskiy. They was made at the turn of the 1920–1930s. Soviet reflected in six identified topics on the collection: 1) drawings of transport; 2) “poles with wires”; 3) retail spaces 4) school education; 5) hygiene; 6) agitation and ideology. They are analyzed from the theoretical frames of visual anthropology, anthropology of childhood, memory studies and understanding soviet project from point of view utopia and modernity. Hopes for a new and memory of the past connect in everyday Sami’s perception of the Soviet Utopia, transmitted in the drawings. The images expressed the young Sami`s expectations of the possibility to preserve parts of departing tradition and the readiness to adopt a new