Integration of Tuva traditional culture and the socialist realism ideology in the USSR

Zykin Alexey Vladimirovich

The paper considers and analyzes the traditional culture of Tuva in the post-Soviet period. After the inclusion of Tuva in the CCCP, its local culture, and especially its ethnic aspect, was strongly influenced by the concept of socialist realism as the official Soviet ideology. The article is a continuation of a series of previous works devoted to other peoples of the region, their cultural identity and distinctive features of the processes to which they have been and continue to be subjected.

Keywords:culture, Tuva, ethnic group, traditions, Soviet ideology