Sowjetrussische Vornamen —— Ein Lexikon

----- 苏联名字：一个词典

ISBN: 9783110314014 出版年：2013 页码：228 Kraus, Herwig De Gruyter

Among the curiosities of the Soviet period are the 鈥渞evolutionary鈥?first names that were inspired by the communist ideology. The Orthodox Church lost its monopoly over the giving of names with the Bolshevik seizure of power. Instead of a name taken from the church calendar it was possible to choose any desired word as a first name. Often only specialists recognize that the name 鈥淢elor鈥?for example stands for the initials of Marx, Engels, Lenin and October Revolution. And 鈥淭rolebuzin鈥?has nothing to do with the trolleybus, but originated from the first letters of Trotsky, Lenin, Bukharin and Zinov鈥檈v. The 鈥渞evolutionary鈥?namegiving was only a temporary phenomenon, but the unusual creations appeared and still continue to appear in a not insignificant number as first names and patronymics. This volume throws light upon a so far unexplored chapter of modern Russian history and for the first time makes possible the deciphering of the artificially constructed first names that were created wholesale after 1917, such as 鈥淟enmar鈥? 鈥淢arksen鈥?or 鈥淣inel鈥?