Arts Flashcards
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Lenin
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Recog role of culture and encouraged artists to co op (fellows travellers)
Tolerated experimental styles
Commissariat of Enlightenment
Constructivist sand prolekult
Tractor poems
Avante guarde cinema (too sophisticated? Eisenstein)
Poems and poetry propaganda (Mayakovsky)
2
Q
Stalin
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Cult revolution Experimental = bourgeois Attack on artists etc Fellow travellers replaced by loyal Cult of little man + glavlit Socialist realism traditional styles as propaganda Eisenstein films propaganda motivation BUT 1946 Pasternak and Ahmatova
3
Q
Khrushchev
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Allowed prev banned works published (Babel) Experimental poetry Western music New themes in lit Cultural thaw Dr Zhivago 1958 Roasted abstract artists to their face (donkey) 1964 Brodsky 5yrs in camp
4
Q
Brezhnev
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Cont focus on propaganda (population prefer it but unchallenging to make)
Nostalgic village prose make gvmnt uneasy
Russian nationalism
Air time of non official soviet composers work limited to 20%
BUT cassette tapes so western music
Guitar poets
Underground 1975 artists assaulted
