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Growing restrictions on arts and theater
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Some even claim this umbrella term to extend into the 1960's
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Most famous for poetry. this age embraced the fervor of revolution. Some authors include: : Alexander Blok, Sergei Yesenin, Valery Bryusov, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Innokenty Annensky.
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The most eminent poet of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia who tried to understand the Revolution was Alexander Blok. He focused on religion and in this work depictd the ugliness of industrialization.
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Russian art movement founded by Mikhail F. Larionov. First beginnings of abstract art in Russia.
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Artistic movement that valued the power of the machine. It began in Italy and was part of Russian avant gard.
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Trying to avoid the deception of objects, this artistic movement aimed to focus on emotion. The works were mostly basic shapes. Kazimir Malevich was the founder.
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Proletkult movement started in support of the dictatorship of the proletariat
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Private schools banned. Education now under exclusive control of state.
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Art museums become protected and enriched.
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( All-Leninist Communist League of Youth) formed
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The idea to use art for social purposes. Art was no longer anonymous and led way to modernism movements.
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Lenin gives speech to Congress declaring ideas for Komsomol. Students need to interact with communism first hand.
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Drop in Komsomol membership due to initial introduction to NEP
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Now aimeded to engage members in education and service or industrial activities
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Coined by Pavel Filonov, this movement was a cubo-futurist combination. Created by a process of general to specific.
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The Constructivist group of artists in Russia issued a manifesto calling for the defeat of art, which they regarded as the enemy of technology.
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Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956), a painter turned photographer founded Constructivist group of artists.
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Central Committee of the Communist Party decreed that all existing literary and artistic groups and organizations should be disbanded. Officially approved art was required to follow the doctrine of Socialist Realism
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Allowed teachers to practice stricter methods on discipline. Students had to memorize the twenty rules of behavior.
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Komsomol members active in armed forces during war. (famous Komsomol soldiers include Zoya Kosmodemyankaya and Aleksandr Matrosov)
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New curriculum in schools. Along with gender separate classes, teachers and students were vulnerable to strict punishment to rule breaking. Curriculum in natural sciences, social sciences, humanitites and arts. -
Moscow artist Ely Bielutin encouraged his students to experiment with abstractionism, a practice thoroughly discouraged by the Artists’ Union, which strictly enforced the official policy of Socialist Realism.
