Proletkult, Agitaitonal art and cinema Flashcards
the avant garde artists were drawn into producing what for the Bolsheviks?
producing propaganda
posters were displayed in the Petrograd ROSTA (Russian Telegraph Agency) windows, how many ROSTA posters were created over a two year period?
more than 1000 were created
Agitprop theatre broke down?
barriers between actors and audiences , encouraging the audience to respond vocally to the actions of the play
Meyerhold and other directors produced street plays designed to?
stir up hatred of the old bourgeoisie and encourage people to support the new regime
Lenin wanted to take art into the streets and had a plan for monumental propaganda, he proposed?
proposed that streets of the major cities should display posters and slogans to educate citizens ‘in the most basic Marxist principles and slogans’
Moscow city soviet was draped with the huge banner’ the proletriats have nothing to loose but its chains’
another element of mass agitational art was street processions what did this involve?
built on a rich tradition of public festivals, in orthodox traditions , icons were carried across the village or town = though now they were communist rather than religious icons
what became the great rituals of the new atheist Marxist-Leninist state?
May Day and the anniversary of the October Revolution
Lenin encouraged popular revolutionary celebrations but he wanted them to be ?
carefully organised rather than spontaneous
example of mass street theatre
the great re-enactment of the storming of the winter police in November 1920
- involved 10,000 people and included the winter palace itself
there were fireworks and music
what made film production very difficult during the civil war?
the shortage of supplies of film equipment
agritproptrains were in action and equipped to?
spread political propaganda through films, plays and other media far and wide
in the early 1920s a special unit, proltkino was formed for?
for specifically the production of political films in line with party ideology
in 1925, politburos decision not to intervene in matters of form and style in the arts allowed?
soviet cinema a brief period of great creativity
the number of cinemas grew fast, how many tickets were sold in 1928?
300 million
in 1928 what was imposed and what did this say?
the first all-Union Party Congress on Films Questions met and tighter control was imposed
-it ruled that films should be accessible to the mass audience, emphasised socialist ideas along strict party lines
