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RUSSIA Culture and the Arts Flashcards

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What did Lenin think about culture?

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Vital but subordinate to class conflict and the retention of power

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What were Lenin’s personal cultural tastes?

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Conservative, with a liking for classical Russian conflict

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What did Lenin implement early after the seizure of power to support and encourage artists?

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Commissariat of Englightenment

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Prolekult

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‘Proletarian Culture’

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What was prolekult a direct challenge to?

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High culture

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When did the government start to impose restrictions on prolekult?

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By the early 1920s

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Why did the government begin to impose restrictions on prolekult?

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They were concerned at the variety of viewpoints expressed through this culture from the people

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Who promoted the prolekult originally?

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Alexander Bogdanov; Anatoly Lunacharsky

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What was a key strand of prolekult?

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Constructivists

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What was the emphasis of the Constructivists to be on?

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The collective of the workers as a class, rather than individualism

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Constructivists

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Wished to create a new proletarian culture based on the worker and industrial technology

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Why did the Bolsheviks put so much emphasis on visual art?

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The country had low literacy rates

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What was the RAPP replaced with?

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Union of Soviet Writers

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When was the RAPP replaced?

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1932

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What marked the end of the Cultural Revolution?

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The replacement of the RAPP with the Union of Soviet Writers

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What did Stalin call writers and artists?

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‘Engineers of human souls’

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Which cultural movement followed the cultural revolution?

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Socialist Realism

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Socialist Realism

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Presented idealised images of life under socialism to inspire the population towards its achievement

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Who policed Socialist Realism?

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Union of Soviet Writers

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Who is an example of a writer who conformed to the rules of Socialist Realism but whose work suffered as a result of this?

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Mikhail Zoshchenko

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Who are examples of writers who fed into the ‘genre of silence’ during the Socialist Realism movement?

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Boris Pasternak; Anna Akhamatova

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What was art like under Socialist Realism?

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No experimentation with form; avant-garde styles were rejected

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What was Socialist Realist art often fused with?

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Cult of personality

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What was literature like under Socialist Realism?

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Change of emphasis away from the cult of the ‘little man’ to heroes connected to the Party

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What was the standard plot of novels in the 1930s?

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A hero from the people was guided by the Party to greater things

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What was ‘lowbrow’ literature in the 1930s usually concerned with?

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Heroes from Russian history; war stories; detective novels where a police agent thwarts the evil capitalists

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What ensured that the population had easy access to literature under Socialist Realism?

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Low price of ‘lowbrow’ books; tenfold growth in library acquisitions

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Which musical instrument did the Soviet government ban in the 1940s?

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Saxophone

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Under Socialist Realsim, what did the government favour in popular music?

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Military songs more than jazz

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Why did the Soviet government fear jazz music in the 1930-40s?

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Its perceived decadent associations

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What did music suffer from under Socialist Realism?

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Pressure to toe the line

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What style of architecture did Socialist Realism promote?

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‘Stalinist Baroque’

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What was ‘Stalinist Baroque’ architecture better known as?

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‘Wedding cake’ architecture

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What did ‘Stalinist Baroque’ architecture make use of?

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Classical lines

35
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What are the best examples of ‘Stalinist Baroque’ architecture?

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Moscow University; Moscow metro system

36
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When was Moscow University rebuilt?

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After 1945

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When was Socialist Realism popular?

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1920-60s

38
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Which popular Socialist Realist film presented the heroic version of the storming of the Winter Palace in 1917?

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Eisenstein’s ‘October’ (1927)

39
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What was shocking about the production of Eisenstein’s ‘October’?

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More people died in the making of the film than in the actual events themselves

40
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How was cinema used during WW2?

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To promote patriotism in defence of both Mother Russia and socialism

41
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What was one of the most popular wartime Russian films?

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‘Alexander Nevsky’

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Why is it easy to criticise Socialist Realism?

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It was so out of touch with reality

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What were the positives of Socialist Realism?

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Inspired some people to work harder; provided escapism

44
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When were there signs that the government was prepared to allow artists and writers greater freedom?

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Immediately after WW2

45
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What is an example of artists and writers being given greater freedom?

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Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhamatova were allowed to give public readings of their unorthodox poetry in Moscow in 1946

46
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When was a campaign launched to remove all aspects of ‘bourgeois’ culture from the West?

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1946

47
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How were the signs of greater freedom quickly dispelled post-WW2?

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Elements of Western culture were condemned in a campaign referred to as the Zhdanovschina

48
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What provided hope for artists and writers who wished to express themselves freely?

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De-Stalinisation

49
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What is an example of Khrushchev’s more relaxed approach to culture and the arts?

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Works by Isaac Babel, a writer who had been shot during the purges, were published

50
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When did jazz music make a reappearence?

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Under Khrushchev

51
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What new themes did writers begin to explore under Khrushchev?

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Spiritual concerns; bleakness of rural life; problems of adultery, divorce and alcohol abuse

52
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When was nonconformity starting to have an important impact on youth culture in the USSR?

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By the late 1950s

53
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What were the youth groups who listened to pop and rock’n’roll music and wore Western fashions labelled by the authorities?

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Stilyagi

54
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What was tape recorder self-publishing called?

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Magnitizdat

55
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What was a notable development in popular music under Khrushchev?

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Guitar-poet

56
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Who was the leading figure of the guitar-poets?

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Alexander Galich

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What did the guitar-poet often address?

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Feelings of the individual

58
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Who did the guitar-poet often speak to?

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Socially alienated

59
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How did the replacement of Khrushchev with Brezhnev affect culture and the arts?

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Narrowed the boundaries of what was acceptable after the cultural thaw of the Khrushchev years

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Why did many artists and writers find that it was easier to work in the new cultural climate created by Brezhnev?

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More certainty over what was permissible

61
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When did Soviet culture become conservative?

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1970s

62
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Which school of village prose, made popular under Brezhnev, highlighted the value of a simple rural life?

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Derevenshchiki

63
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Who emerged as an influential guitar-poet during the Brezhnev years?

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Vladimir Vysotsky

64
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What were Vladimir Vysotsky’s songs about?

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Sex and delinquency

65
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What indicated the growing alienation of young people from Soviet society in the Brezhnev years?

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Outpouring of grief at Vladimir Vysotsky’s funeral in 1980

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What was the government’s control over record production and radio airtime during the Brezhnev years undermined by?

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Development of the cassette recorder

67
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When did a Soviet audience become skilled at grasping subtext?

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In the Brezhnev years

68
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What were the limits of Khrushchev’s cultural thaw shown by?

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Treatment of Boris Pasternak over his novel ‘Doctor Zhivago’

69
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What was Pasternak awarded for ‘Doctor Zhivago’?

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1958 Nobel Prize for Literature

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What was an area of art in which nonconformity was not encouraged by Khrushchev?

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Abstract art

71
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What type of music did Khrushchev have a problem with?

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Jazz

72
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Who was employed to patrol the streets and dance halls to report on young people whose behaviour was deemed unacceptable?

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Komsomol groups

73
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When did the government hold a conference that decided on which dance moves were permissible?

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1961

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How did Khrushchev’s cultural policy reflect his personality?

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Subject to mood swings

75
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When did Khrushchev become less tolerant of cultural nonconformity?

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In his last months as leader

76
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What indicated that there were limits to what Brezhnev’s government was prepared to tolerate?

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The trial of Joseph Brodsky, 1964

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What was Brodsky sentenced to?

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Five years of hard labour in prison

78
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Due to the campaigning of fellow writers abroad and at home, how long was Brodsky actually imprisoned for?

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2 years

79
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Why was Brodsky arrested?

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He was not licensed as a poet under the Writers’ Union

80
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What is an example of a further clampdown from Brezhnev on cultural nonconformity?

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The trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, 1966

81
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What were the clashes between nonconformist artists and the government the cause of in the West?

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Much bad publicity for the Soviet Union

82
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How were nonconformist artists often viewed by the general public?

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Self-indulgent; out of touch with the harsh realities of daily life

83
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How much airtime did the government agree to give to songs not composed by official Soviet composers in the 1980s?

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20%

84
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Why did propaganda and control over culture become so important?

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Use of terror lessened

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