literature Flashcards
more serious writers and artists use their art forms to ?
address problems in russian society during this period
by early 20th century, the 19th century classics of Russian literature could be?
obtained in cheap mass-produced editions and these too were readily sought by newly literature
+ traditional readership of educated elites
Anton Chekhov, for example, produced?
a stream of stories and plays from the 1880s until his death in 1904 continuing realist tradition of Leo Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in 1860s and 1870s.
middle 19th cnetury and into 1860s,70s and 80s was a golden age for?
russian literature
who were writing at this time?
Tolstoy and Dostoyesky
tolstoy and dostoyesky would write about the social and political issues + nature of russian society . This influenced the educated elite. The public library in St Petersburg had?
over half a million books in it
example of literature:
Turgenev in his Sportsman’s sketches(1852)
considers the real sufferings of Russian serfs, presenting them as human beings when nobles in russian society treated them as objects to be bought and sold
in 1860s Chernyshevsky more directly provided inspiration for young revolutionaries arguing that?
unhappiness in the world had economic causes only remedied by socialist solutions
-novel ‘what is to be done?’ = enormously successful
who was the most renowned writer of this time?
Leo Tolstoy= fought in crimean war
his experiences contributed to his great novel?
war and peace(1869) which told of the experiences of 5 different aristocratic families
-wanted to look at the reality of russian life
Tolstoy writing wanted to look at the reality of Russian life, in the 1880s and afterwards, he turned more to philosophy and writings about morality. in this he?
idealsied the peasantry and attacked the wealthy, state repression and church hypocrisy
-his novel resurrection (1899) criticises the injustices f the legal system
the relaxation of censorship controls from 1905 produced?
the ‘silver age’ of russian culture dominated in particular by poets
experiments in modernisation through Igor stravinksy’s musc, serge Diaghilev’s ballets , Marc Chagall’s pictures and Kazmir Malevich’s paintings which offered?
new and often ;shocking; challenges to convention and showed that Russia was culturally as much a part of the ‘modern world’ as its more advanced economic neighbors
by 1914 , Russian culture had certainly?
broadened and diversified to encompass a much wider group than the intelligentsia elites = mirrored the many other changes running through Russian society
