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Music and Film (Cultural Revolution (Young communists in particular took…
Music and Film
Cultural Revolution
part of a great upheaval in USSR associated with the 'socialist offensive' which began end of 1920's with the first FYP
There was an attempt to find 'proletarian approaches' in al these fields. So was labelled cultural revolution
Young communists in particular took up the challenge and took lead in taking the attack forward on many fronts.
They mounted a fierce attack on religion in the villages , broke up 'bourgeois' plays by booing and criticised painters and writers who did not follow party line.
was not just manipulation, it gained a momentum of its own as more joined in
Was supported by members of Komsomols (young communists league). Many members leapt at the opportunity to drive the revolution
Music after 1928
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Folk songs and dances and 'songs in praise of happy life of onward-marching Soviet Man' were acceptable sounds of music
Since music was an abstract form of art it was hard for Soviet censors to make composers respond to Stalin's notions of social realism
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He claimed to be able to recognise socialist music when listening and the type of song inspired the people
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Cinema after 1928
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Bolshevik party believed that film would be effective and that mass audience would be incapable pf rejecting its message
Under the 1st FYP, Stalin ordered increased production of documentaries supporting the plans industrial objectives
Film making came under the control of the Politburos economic department. Film makers were controlled by the 'cast iron' scenario system
This meant that there was not the same creativity and originality that there was between 1925 and 1928
Before 1928
After October Revolution the Bolshevik government set up the Commisiariat of Popular Enlightenment (ministry of Education and culture)
Workers and peasants were encouraged to produce their own culture as part of the Proletkult (Proletarian cultural movement)
1920 - around 400,000 Proletkult members
Cinema
1925 the Politburo's decision not to intervene with matters of form and style in the arts allowed soviet cinema a brief period of great creativity
Einstein, the best-known Soviet film director of the 20th century. Worked with Bolsheviks and Moscow Workers' Theatre before moving to film industry
Although number of cinemas grew fast and 300million tickets were sold in 1928, cinemas were almost completely restricted ij towns
Social Realism
Although origins of socialist realism lay with Lenin's view that art and literature must educate workers in spirit of communism, the term appears in 1932 for the first time
1934, newly founded Union of Writers proclaimed socialist realism to be 'definitive soviet artistic method'
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