Brezhnev

Question 1

Banned art and the Buldozer exhbition

Answer 1

• Breznhev luanched a campaign aganist an experimental art exhbition opened in 1974 displaying works from unliscened artists
• an “enraged public” (recruited hooligans) smashed up the work and the police drove buldozers into the exhbition to smah sculptures

Question 2

Lesser known artists

Answer 2

• lesser known aritsts who deviated from the party line would be sent to physciatric treatment
• estimates suggest around 700 - 80000 were sent to these words

Question 3

The samizdat movement

Answer 3

• Samizdat means ‘self published’ even during the thaw there some period would not be published
• Alexander Ginzburg was the best known figure hwo edited the magazine syntax which circulated on the black market
• Samizdat created copies of banned bokos such as pasternaks doctor zhivago
• this movement thrived under the black market