"Girl Meets Tractor" Soviet Socialist Realism. Proletkult Early Soviet Union, post- Revolution, had...

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"Girl Meets Tractor" Soviet Socialist Realism

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By the early thirties is seen the shift from Proletkult revolutionary art to socialist realism. Stalin ruined everything.

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"Girl Meets Tractor"Soviet Socialist Realism

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Proletkult• Early Soviet Union, post-

Revolution, had a somewhat more lenient view of art than later.

• Allowed non-representative styles

• Proletkult (proletarian culture) governed cultural affairs for the first few years.

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• By the early thirties is seen the shift from Proletkult revolutionary art to socialist realism.

• Stalin ruined everything.

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• Socialist Realism is official doctrine by 1932

• Union of Soviet Writers formed in 1934 to control literary output.

• Art continues to suck.

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The Official Doctrine

• Proletarian

• Realistic

• Typical

• Partisan

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• Internal dialogue, stream of consciousness, literary experimentation forbidden. Religious, erotic, disallowed.

• "I am against a writer having to live "willingly not seeing," or, simply, lying. And a lie results when some sort of statistical proportion is not observed. I am not a communist, and for that reason I do not agree that I should have to write in a communist manner." - Boris Pilnyak

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• Politburo sought to shed everything pre-Revolution and capitalist in order to create an ideological environment agreeable to the birth of the New Soviet Man.

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• Every cultural production must depict Soviets struggling towards a Soviet future.

• Every artist an employee of the state.

• Dialectical materialism is sexy.

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• Art was really boring for sixty years or so.

• Rules relaxed under glasnost, perestroika, etc.

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• "I think Stalin's cultural policies, especially the cultural policies imposed on Leningrad through Zhdanov, were cruel and senseless. You can't regulate the development of literature, art, and culture with a stick, or by barking orders. You can't lay down a furrow and then harness all your artists to make sure they don't deviate from the straight and narrow. If you try to control your artists too tightly, there will be no clashing of opinions, consequently no criticism, and consequently no truth. There will be just a gloomy stereotype, boring and useless." - Nikita Khrushchev

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The Tanker Derbent(1938)

• A lazy oil tanker crew whips itself into shape and becomes a better oil tanker crew.

• The Soviet Mighty Ducks

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From The Point of View of Eternity

(1971)• Workers at a pipe factory

develop a better way of making pipes.

• Ideologically pure pipes.

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Boris Pilnyak (1894 - 1937?)

• "If only I could write freely! What I would I not do!"

• "I do believe, Victor, that one day I too will send a bullet into my head. Perhaps it would have been better if I had done that. I cannot emigrate like Zamyatin: I could not live apart from Russia. And I have the feeling that as I come and go, there is a gun in my back, with a pack of blackguards on the trigger."

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Isaac Babel (1894 - 1939/1941)

• "I have invented a new genre - the genre of silence."

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Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930)• "Do not blame anyone for

my death and please do not gossip. The deceased terribly dislike this sort of thing. Mamma, sisters and comrades, forgive me - this is not a way out (I do not recommend it to others), but I have none other. Lily - love me…Comrades of VAPP - do not think me weak-spirited. Seriously - there was nothing else I could do."

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Sergei Yesenesin (1895 - 1925)

• "I am a stranger in my own land'; My poems are no longer needed now, and myself I am unwanted."

• "To die - in life is nothing new. But nor is new, of course - to live."

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Pre-Soviet RussiaA Time of Emperors, Czars, and Queens

• In Pre-Soviet Russia, there was a time of Royalty and Monarchs.

• Czars or Kings/Emperors ruled over the Russian population.

• Catherine the Great lead the Russian people in the time of the Enlightenment Age.

• A time when communism was only seen as a theory and not as a political system/way of life.

Imperial Russian Standard (WWI)

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Catherine The GreatCatherine The Great

• Catherine the Great ruled Russia for over 30 years and was one of the countries’ most influential rulers.

• Originally known as Catherine II, Empress of Russia; she soon became known with “the Great” attached to her name.

• She lead Russia through the enlightenment age as a wise and educated ruler.

• One son, Paul, whom she had with her husband Tsar Peter III, grandson of Peter the Great.

• Patron of the arts and seeker of enlightenment, she had connections with Voltaire and Diderot (enlightenment age superstars).

• Catherine also expanded Russia’s borders, continued in Westernization, and made major political and social reforms to her empire.

Catherine The Great (Catherine II)

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Cath. Cont. Catherine The Great (Cont.)• Catherine the Great was a strong

political leader and was very involved with the military of Russia.

• Her husband was overthrown shortly after his succession to the thrown and Catherine was named Empress.

• Former Tsar Peter III also died several years after losing the thrown to his wife, it is speculated that she may have played a role in his death, but it is not solidified.

• Originally from Prussia, daughter of a lower German Prince.

Tsar Peter III

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Romanov MonarchRomanovs• Second and Last Russian Dynasty.

(Catherine the Great married into it)

• Ruled over Russia from 1613-1917, until the February Revolution.

• July 17, 1918: Ruling Royal (immediate) family of Romanovs were killed in a cellar along with their 4 servants.

• This Monarch was one of expansion, political change, and social change in Russia. It held a large part of Russian history in its hands.

Tzar Nicholas Romanov II

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Pre-Soviet ConquestsCool Pictures….

• WOOOOOOO

Age of Enlightenment and Expansionism (1650-1789)