1.3 Culture and the Arts Flashcards
How many people did the re-enactment of the storming of the winter palace use?
8000
Who led the avant-garde movement in theatre?
Meyerhold
Who produced slogans and posters for the government?
Mayakovsky
What was the RAPP?
Russia Association of Proletarian Writers
When did the Union of Soviet Writers replace the RAPP?
1932
What was the standard plot of novels in the 1930s?
Hero from the people who is guided by the Party to greater things
What performance did Stalin walk out of in 1935?
Lady Macbeth of Mstensk
When was the saxophone banned?
1940s
Examples of Stalinist Baroque
Moscow University
Moscow metro system
Eisenstein’s film October
More people died making the film than in the actual event itself
When was a campaign launched to remove all bourgeois culture from the west?
1946
When was Pasternak awarded the nobel prize for literature?
1958
What year did the gov hold a conference deciding which dance moves were permissible?
1961
When was the trail of Brodsky?
1964
When was the trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel?
1966
How many students from Sinyavsky’s institute were involved in a demonstration?
200
How many letters were sent to the 23rd party congress asking for the case to be reviewed?
200
How many years were Sinyavsky and Daniel sentenced to?
Sinyavsky: 7
Daniel: 5
Gov restricted airtime of non-official soviet composers on radio to what %?
20% of airtime
When did a group of unofficial artists put on an exhibition of their work that Brezhnev launched a propaganda campaign against?
1975
