Exam 2 Flashcards
Krushevs Secret Speech
Krushev’s speech served importance in denouncing Stalin and diminishing Stalinization from soviet culture. Impactful to soviet culture because it set off a chain reaction that led to calls for reform in Eastern Europe that generated confusion about soviet identity from citizens that were now told to unlearn everything they know
Liberation of the Gulags
Freeing Prisoners from the Gulag was significant to the culture in that it was one of the most important departures from Stalinism. The freedom of the prisoners impacted the culture with an increase in violence the ex-prisoners receiving blame and the general population wanting them to return to camps.
Stilyagi
counterculture movement for youth against a communist culture that involved wearing colorful clothes specifically from the west/america. This movement was significant to soviet culture because it went against the strictly enforced uniformity and conformity of soviet society and gave the youth to show expressions of individuality
communist Morally
Khrushevs governments amempt to not depend on wide-scale terror but on consent and persuasion. Had great significance because it was supposed to bring new freedoms but instead was Just new Forms of control, making this movement hypocritical but also a large part of enforcing communism as the national identity.
The thaw
The Thaw was extremely influential on Russian culture by allowing more freedom of information in the arts, and media, and even allowing international Festivals; This was a time of cultural liberalization and brought hope and optimism to the soviet people, opening up to the world and allowing Other countries and tourists to experience their culture.
Socialist Realism
was significant for soviet culture identity because the purpose of the movement was to create positive media of socialist utopian life and was a way to promote soviet ideals and identity.
Moscow, a second Alabama
caused the first organized protest in Moscow’s Red Square since the 1920’s after the death of a Ghanaian medical student. The foreign student’s complaints and protests inspired their soviet contemporaries by providing them with an examples of free expression and democratic action.
international youth Festival
For young soviet citizens, the festival brought new experiences, opening up to experience culture with non-soviets. The Festival was extremely significant to embracing culture with other countries and tourists creating a strong pride of soviet identity.
sexuality in Literature
Stalin had silenced the wide-ranging literary and medical conversations about Sex that had taken place in the 1920’s.
The Thaw had a great impact on bringing attention to issues of sexuality and even red to large achievements like the legalization of abortion.
Battle of Stalingrad
The war was important to soviet identity and culture because it marked them fighting a war on fascism.
Though many soviet soldiers lost their lives, it brought a great sense of nationalism and patriotism to the Soviets.
Alexander Salzhenitsyn
His story one day in the life of ivan denisovich appeared in the leading literary journal and was the first literary treatment of Stalin’s death camps. His work encouraged such a flood of prison camp writings and in the soviet union especially the gulag system.
Ludmilla pertrudhrvskaya’s
Grew up with a father who was deemed anti-soviet by Stalin which can be detected in her writings. Her writings served impactful on giving detail to what life was like in soviet culture but from a non socialist realism perspective.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Work reflected the contemporary reality of soviet life and what realities women faced. Making her work extremely impactful for its themes rooted in Soviet history. Her writings also informed readers of the Jewish experience in Soviet Russia
Vasilli Shukshin
Shukshin’s writings were impactful being that they were associated with the village prose movement in soviet literature, which depicted a part of the culture that romanticized the soviet countryside as a last resort of traditional values. His writings were significant to Russian national identity that had become central to soviet patriotism with his praise of the simple rural life.
Variam Shalamov
Wrote short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labor camps which he experienced firsthand and gave readers a reality of how detrimental these camps were. These stories forever impacted the culture around the Gulags and gave a better understanding of the treatment of prisoners.
