Octobering
Octobering was a naming ceremony which occurred during the early era of the Soviet Union, which involved giving a name to a newborn, introduced by the state on the official basis of Marxist–Leninist atheism as an attempt to replace the religious tradition of christening.[1][2] The term serves as a translation of two synonymous Soviet neologisms: Oktyabryenie, coined in an analogy to Kreshcheniye, literally, the sacrament of "baptism", and Oktyabriny instead of Krestiny , the latter being a family celebration on the occasion of baptism. [3]
The term Oktyabriny is distinct from Oktyabrina, which is a
Since the religious symbol of the
Despite being short-lived,[4] this so-called new Soviet rite contributed to the proliferation of the new names based on revolutionary phraseology, such as Oktyabrina, Vladlen (for Vladimir Lenin), etc.[2]
Cultural references
In the 1988 film
References
- ^ Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless, p. 92
- ^ a b Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, p. 111
- ^ Y.D>Bondarenko, СОВЕТСКИЕ СЦЕНАРИИ ИМЯНАРЕЧЕНИЯ: ДИАЛОГ С ТРАДИЦИЕЙ (THE SOVIET NAMING SCENARIOS: DIALOGUE WITH TRADITION ), Политическая лингвистика (Political Linguistics), 4 (46) 2013, pp. 166-171
- ^ "ОКТЯБРИНЫ", in Ushakov Dictionary