Аболина Л.А.
Moral and ethical norms in the folklore of Belarusian migrants (first half of the twentieth century)
ABSTRACT: The Russian peasantry in the twentieth century had many trials: mass migrations, the First world war, the Civil war, and the Great Patriotic war. The majority of the migrants were rural residents, most of them came from the territory of Belarus. Having found themselves in a foreign ethnic environment and difficult social conditions, they relied on their own life traditions and moral and ethical rules that had been established for centuries. Many of the peasants were illiterate or semiliterate, so all these rules were transmitted in the form of proverbs, sayings, children's games, songs, and fairy tales. As an important component, nicknames that contain rich ethnographic information about people, their relationships, occupations, clothing, family life, and dialect features of speech that create a single living space that resists external chaos deserve special attention. But this topic is covered in a separate article (Аболина, 2016, 75-79). In this study, based on oral folklore and family memories that illustrate its importance, the author of the article attempts to show the integrity and inviolability of the peasant worldview with the loss of which the connection with the earth, nature and the surrounding world is lost. Interpersonal rules and laws of society fixed in the folklore structure, created a rational basis of existence and gave calmness and self-confidence to their bearers. Despite what was happening, in any emergency, such people were always people. Maintaining psychological health due to the ability to adapt to any conditions is especially important at the moment, as a positive
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