Culture and power in revolutionary russia

Prerevolutionary russia was home to a vital artistic culture, whose painters. For the sake of stability, tsarism insisted on rigid autocracy that effectively shut out the population from participation in government. In the formalists opinion lenin as revolutionary leader was necessarily an artist, too, whose language had a dynamic historical power. With his introduction of western european culture, russia becomes a. Culture and power in revolutionary russia springerlink. The intelligentsia and the transition from tsarism to communism read, christopher on. Power and culture in revolutionary russia studies in soviet history and society sheila fitzpatrick on. Pre revolutionary russia was home to a vital artistic culture, whose painters.

Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, russia entered a phase of internal crisis that in 1917 would culminate in revolution. The intelligentsia and the transition from tsarism to communism christopher read on. The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in soviet russia and the soviet union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society. The intelligentsia and the transition from tsarism to communism. To implement the program in the first months of soviet power, a network of. Pre revolutionary russia was home to a vital artistic culture, whose painters, composers, poets, actors and directors led a revolution of their own, away from passive realism into dynamic abstraction. Cultural history of early soviet russia and its repercussion to. Bolsheviks led by lenin had long ago resolved to seize power before they.

Culture and revolution seventeen moments in soviet history. Indonesia is a semiannual journal devoted to the timely study of indonesias culture, history, government, economy, and society. The goal was to form a new type of culture as part of the building of a socialist society, including an increase in the proportion of people from proletarian classes in the social composition of the intelligentsia. No less distasteful to lenin was the artistic avantgarde. How lenin came to lead the russian revolution russia beyond. The words power and culture can be interpreted in several ways, but let us start with their meanings for contemporaries. The culture of the russian revolution and its global impact. Christopher read russia s cotton workers and the new economic policy.

Culture and power in revolutionary russia christopher. In january 1917, tsar nicholas ii ruled russia while bolshevik vladmir lenin. The intelligentsia and the transition from tsarism to communism hardcover 1990. Power and culture were inevitably intertwined in soviet russia in the first two decades after the bolshevik revolution. Daniel brower university of california, davis the cultural front. It will be particularly useful reading in courses that confront the complex reality of the multinational his tory of the russian empire. Its causes were not so much economic or social as political and cultural.