Just like in the United States, when rock first began to become popular in the USSR, it was widely considered to be tasteless and violent, and a… Read more “Countering the Counterculture”
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Everybody’s a critic: Khrushchev’s thoughts on art
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In 1956 Khrushchev brought the “thaw” to the Soviet Union. The thaw was a policy of de-Stalinization which relaxed censorship and released millions of prisoners from the Gulag labor camps. In the following year Khrushchev asserted the importance of art remaining in line with the Soviet realist style in his article, “For a Close Tie between …
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The Rise of a New Culture
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One of the most fascinating things about history is how it affects the culture and customs of the generations of that time and the generations to come. The Revolutions of 1917 in Russia embarked on a cultural transformation that affected millions of people throughout Eastern Europe and Northern Asia and still affects them to this …
It was the Best of Times and it was the Worst of Times
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The revolution in Russia was the beginning and end of a lot of things but it truly is the events leading up and the fallout that hold great importance. Mass culture in particular was one of the areas that suffered greatly in the violence and sudden change of the revolution. Russia mass culture, including music, … Continue reading It was the Best of Times and it was the Worst of Times →
