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Final Flash Cards

1
Q

2nd Wave Emigration

Years
What/Who
Why/How

A

1941-45/60
Displaced Persons
Many just trying to escape

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Frightful Galaxies Somewhere

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

2nd Wave
Poem - about emigrating
Authors experience

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Q

Amnesty

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

2nd Wave
Poem
About Murder of Elagins Father, they forgive Elagin, ironic title

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Q

Zhdanovism

Years
What/Who
Why/How

A

1946-53
Stalin/Party Propaganda
Socialist Realism

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Moscow State University

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
Building in Moscow
Stalin Gothic, highly ornamental

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Q

Hotel Ukraine

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
building, one of 7 sisters
Stalin Gothic

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Q

Tractor Drivers Dinner

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
Painting
Socialist Realism

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Q

Silvery Dust

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
Film
Socialist Realism - Racism, sentence negros to death

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Q

On Guard For Peace
Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
song
about Stalin and economic success

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10
Q

We’re Building Communism

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Zhdanovism
poem
Stalin propaganda

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Q

The Thaw

Years
What/Who
Why/How

A

1953-64
Destalinization
Stalin dead, Russians can be more expressive

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Q

Midnight Trolleybus

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

The Thaw
Poem
Depression, mournful, sorrowful, individual back into art

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Q

I Am Goya

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Thaw
Poem
About horrors of war, imagery, mutilations

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Q

In The Hospital

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Thaw
Poem
Horrors of hospital, poor care, lack of medicines

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Q

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

The Thaw
Novel
About life in work camp, barely allowed to be published

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Q

Palace of Congresses

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Thaw
International Style Building in Kremlin
Stalin gothic is out

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Q

Builders of Bratsk

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Thaw
Painting, unhappy people not working
Socialist Realism, SU didn’t like

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Q

Clear Skies

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Thaw
Film
about pilot in trouble, finally let into party, propaganda

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19
Q

On Guard for Peace

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

The Thaw
Song
Second Version of original song for Stalin

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20
Q

Brezhnev Policy

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Don’t Rock the Boat
Brezhnev in power

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Q

Stagnation

Years
What/Who
Why/How

A

1964-85
Don’t Rock the Boat
Unofficial Art Grows

22
Q

1966 Trial

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Sinyavsky Daniel
Published anti-soviet material

23
Q

Self Portrait

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Painting, Socialist Realism
Represent Past, Present, Future = progress

24
Q

Yung Leningrad Art Show

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Art Show
Cancelled by S.U. - Theme: Alienation

25
Q

The Artist Dreaming

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Non conformist painting
Represent Soviet society - Unofficial Art

26
Q

Bus Shelter

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Photograph
Unofficial Art, represents alienation

27
Q

Why/How”

A

Stagnation
symbol film about famous Russian Painter, idol
Spiritual/Moral trials, barely released in 1 year

28
Q

Passions of Spying

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Poem/Song
highlights difficulty traveling abroad for Russians

29
Q

Pkhentz

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Stagnation
Short Story
In USSR, better to be invisible than noticed, Satire on Soviet Society

30
Q

3rd Wave of Emigration

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

(1907-1991)
Jews and Christians to USA and Israel
Fled because felt persecuted and prejudiced

31
Q

Stalin and the Muses

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Third Wave
Sots Art, Stalin on pedestal
Parody on Socialist Realism

32
Q

Liquid Sky

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

3rd Wave
Film
Produced in USA by Russian emigre

33
Q

To A Certain Tyrant

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

3rd Wave
Poem
Indirectly about Stalin, author not in Union of Soviet Writers so not acknowledged as author

34
Q

Somebody’s Death

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

3rd Wave
Short Story
Many do not know name of those dead, whether in story or in Russia

35
Q

Glasnost

Years
What/Who
Why/How

A

1985-1991
Reaction against Stagnation
Soviet history exposed

36
Q

Crystal Palace

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Glasnost
Paper Architecture
Restore church architecture, religious, utopian vision

37
Q

Requiem

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Glasnost
Poster
Years reflect History of Purges

38
Q

Little Vera

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Glasnost
Film
Dark, Rejection of Soviet Society

39
Q

Heavenly Flame

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Glasnost
Short Story
Expose of False Utopia

40
Q

1992

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Post Soviet Era
Yeltsin
Elected President

41
Q

2000

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Post Soviet Era
Putin
Elected President

42
Q

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Post Soviet
Reerected after previously destroyed
New architecture - Luzhkov Baroque

43
Q

Apocalypse 2

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Post Soviet
painting/photo
Represent past, present, future; fall os USSR

44
Q

Window to Paris

Period
What/Who
Why/How

A

Post Soviet
Film
Satirizes Russias materialism, satire on how West views Russia

45
Q

Define The Thaw

Years
1. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
2. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
3. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
A

1953-1964
1. Greater Expressive Freedom
One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
describes labor/prison camp, barely allowed to be published

2. Actual Everyday Problems
Builders of Bratsk
Subjects not smiling while working; unhappy
3. Past Revisited and Revived
I am Goya
Recreating horrors of war
46
Q

Describe Glasnost

Years
1. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
2. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
3. Characteristic
Work
Detail relating
A 
1985-1991
1. Russian History Exposed
Requiem
Years in cloud represent years of purges
2. Religious Subjects
Crystal Palace
Restore church architecture
3. Socialist Realism Disappears
Little Vera
dark film revealing underside of daily life
47
Q

Is Tiurin a Utopian Malfeasant?

Does he believe in a Utopia? Yes/No and How?

What is His official Duty? Is he in dereliction of it? How?

A

Yes
Did nothing wrong, takes bribes to make life better for those in camp, only in camp because stalin didn’t like father

Foreman at work camp
At first, scary, associated with punishment, at power station reveals life story and from then on out he is seen as companion, sympathetic, deriliction of official camp duties

48
Q

Is Dovlatov a Utopian Malfeasant?

Does he believe in a Utopia? Yes/No and How?

What is His official Duty? Is he in dereliction of it? How?

A

Yes
Transforms, once at funeral and overcome with emotions he believes in best life/utopia

Duty is to give speech, originally in deriliction because plans to change it, ends up at a loss for words, no one can hear speech, never gives speech, self-realization of importance of life

49
Q

Is Buinovsky a Utopian Malfeasant?

Does he believe in a Utopia? Yes/No and How?

What is His official Duty? Is he in dereliction of it? How?

A

Yes - bosses everyone around in camp, thinks his orders will create order. was in navy

he is a prisoner in the labor camp, bosses everyone around so much that he gets tired and is unable to perform duties, backtalks guards and ends up in punishment - in deriliction of his duty

50
Q

Artist Name:
Title of Painting:
Year:

Artist Background:

History in that Year:

A

Ivan Bilibin
Tsar Saltan Eavesdropping
1905

Bilibin: contributed to Ballet Russes and Realist movement, inspired by folklore even since childhood. Realist movement - Nature. Worked for state, drawing pictures for fairy tales. Participated in 1st wave emigration, first to Egypt then to Paris.

Tsar Nicholas II was in power in 1905. People of Russia unhappy because lost Russo-Jap war, economy struggling, not enough food, extremely poor conditions. Led to revolution/bloody sunday. Triggered wave of further demonstrations, people wanted help from Tsar and since he didn’t help, the people continued rebelling. Loss of Jap war let to Russo-Franco Alliance

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