Week 2 Blogpost Guidelines

This week we take up the spectacular and diverse cultural transformation that preceded and accompanied the Revolution of 1917.  The connections between artistic and political radicalism were powerful and contradictory, and we will continue to explore them throughout the course. Please choose a cultural artifact that interests you — it could be an avant-garde painting, an example of commercial culture (Pinkerton or Verbitskaya), or Russian Futurism (Mayakovsky), or a creative work associated with this module in 17 Moments in Soviet History. Learn as much as you can about the the work, its creator, and how it might reflect and shape the social and political dynamics of the period.  Then tell us about what you’ve learned.