Soviet time regime in rural society: Musealization and local temporal experiences in a Transcarpathian village, Western Ukraine

This study explores local conflicts between the Soviet political dictatorship's abstract historical narrative (chronopolitics) and the temporal regimes of rural society in a Western Ukrainian region, specifically in the borderland settlements of Transcarpathia. The analysis focuses on an empirical investigation of a single group of settlements, aiming to examine the micro-level power dynamics and symbolic struggles that shaped the transformation, representation, and institutional reproduction of temporal experience between the Soviet state and everyday citizens during the 1960s–1980s. The study examines how open-air skansens and ethnographic room museums—established under central party directives during the Soviet political dictatorship after 1945—shaped a normative conception of time in rural society and influenced the personal and collective memory of local inhabitants.