Soviet Culture
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- Created on: 04-05-13 14:35
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- Soviet Culture
- Social Realism
- Art
- 1931 Art had to be realist
- 1932 created one union
- Should express government rather than individual opinion
- Should educate workers in the spirit of communism
- 1932 term Social Realism first used
- Art had to be real understood by the masses and tell a story
- full of tractors harvesters and peasants
- museum directors given targets and bonuses if met
- portray heroic achievments of 5 yr plans
- In effect was a form of social control as much as the great terror
- art, music and literature used to glorify communism
- Literature
- 1932 union of Russian writers
- led by Maxim Gorky (not a party member)
- Persecuted if wrote about anti communist views
- Boris Pasternak
- portray what STalin wanted Russia wanted to be
- Stalin a long with Lenin creators of communism. Lenin the sun . Stalin the light that overcomes he darkness
- 1932 union of Russian writers
- Architecture
- cities were redesigned
- Moscow underground built 1931
- Music
- Positive and Joyous
- All music in major key
- Musicians were banned if music too bourgeois
- Cinema
- Increased too support the 5 year plans
- Art
- Cult of Personality
- Communism achievements centered around him
- Stalin as great leader
- Propaganda
- Stakhanovite movement
- Worshipped as church banned
- Greatness
- Education
- Komsomol 1926
- 14 and 28
- Young pioneer movement(pre14)
- pledged itself to Stalin and the party
- wasn't compulsory but offered eventual full membership of CPSU and all its privileges
- 2 million members 1927 to 10million 1940
- 14 and 28
- God like furthering Lenins achievements
- Social Realism
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