CULTURAL DEV LENIN 1917-24

Question 1

lenin and bulding socialsim: new commissariat of popular enlightenment set up headed by lunacharsky

Answer 1

beloved that a new rev society should be dominiaed by proleteraiin culture and produced by the only.
at times lenin/lunacharsky didn’t see eye to eye (ed/relgion/artsarhcitecute/cinema)

Question 2

EDUCATION basis of communist society

Answer 2

lenin set up commissariat of enlightenment
free ed at all levels in co ed
gimnazi abol
most schools abolished textbooks and exams
physical work taken as part of study programms

Question 3

education failing instituion under nep

Answer 3

teachers underpaid and financial pressures that came with nep meant universal schooling to be abolished
communistic values taught as part of indoctrination but many actually had a neg view of it with 50% stilll believing in god

Question 4

Bolsheviks - agressive atheists
-eye to eye
-propaganda
-church teachings
-malnoruishment

Answer 4

lenin didn’t see eye to eye with part and permitted religious freedom after oct rev- toleration on best policy.
propaganda promote secular society> state took over church lands/property during rcw
church teachings forbidden 1921
many persist scummed to malnourishment due to harsh rationing of war communism

Question 5

Bolsheviks - agresive atheists
-1921 union
-1922 anti church
-league of godless 1925

Answer 5

1921 union of militant godless est to change church directly
1922 anti church campaign 8k clergy men killd
leave ‘godless’ founded 1925=contested bible teachings against scientific knowledge/spread atheist propaganda
chrustain based public holidays ceased with worship being restricted

Question 6

agitational art and authortive architecture

Answer 6

focus was to move away from high art which was seen as elitism and make popular culture > art directed to mass audience
artists saw rev as exciting so bolsheviks recruited well known artists to promote their causes
communist party began to dev tighter cultural control over arts

Question 7

agitational art and authorities architecture
-avant garde
street art
street processions

Answer 7

avant garde were recruited to spread propaganda for bolsheviks and were posted everywhere in public
lenin> art palced in street to ed masses on Marx principles
street processions common form of art>recreation fo events that est communist party eg nov 1920 recreation storming winter palace

Question 8

cinema - communist values in motion:

Answer 8

segue Eisenstein most profit filmmaker 1920, films themed around power of people October was most famous film