Art and Culture under Stalin

Music/ Cinema

• joyous & positive
• Stostakovich created  Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk play- Stalin disliked it = banned
• film making under the control of Politburo

Censorship

• content of pictures tightly controlled
• detailed guidelines
• museum directors & staff recieved bonuses for increase in visitors
• some music/opera banned
• union of soviet writers
• state control
• film making under control of…