Arts and culture - Lenin Flashcards
(8 cards)
Avant-Garde
experimental art that rejected academic tradition
included movements like
futurism
Prolekult
proletarian culture movement an orgnaisaitoin givign people access to local studios to paint sculpt, rehearse and put on shows
by 1920 there was 84,0000 members working in 300 studios
Agitprop
department of agitation propganda (1920 agitprop) and commissar of elightenment were established to inspire people to support the new gov
produced by avant garde artists, more experimental than anything produced past 1929
Komosol
The organisation taught communist values
Smoking, drinking and religion were discouraged, whilst volunteer social work, sports, politics and drama clubs were organised to inspire socialist values
Komsomol had close links to the Party and became directly affiliated in 1939
Members took an oath to live, study and fight for the Fatherland
painting and scuplture
- 1918 ‘beat the whites with the red wedge’ - El lissitzky
an experimental poster representing and praising the sharp nature of bolshevik civil war stratergy against socialist revolutionary - the russian telegraph agency (ROSTA) worked with artists to produce posters to be displayed in shop windows or on agitprop trains
art under the NEP
- by 1920s OGPU was used to break up urban youth parties. They feared American Jazz and Flapper fashion would promote promiscuity and drunkensss over political learning
- prolekult and avant garde art becmae restricted and criticised for being anti proletarian. Petrograd insitute of Artistic culture was forced to close 1926
Sergei Eisenstein
- made a series of 1920s agitation films combining revoltuonary message with experimental film technique
- by late 1920s his films were criticised for being difficult for proletarian to understand. In the 30s his films were edited to remove refernces of Trotsky
- continued to make films in a tradtional style under Stalin
