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How far was the Government's use of art and culture successful 1917-85?
How far was the Government's use of art and culture successful 1917-85?
Success: controlled, propaganda, quashing dissidents
It was under Lenin + Stalin but it wasn't under K + B
It was
Lenin
Glavit + the Cheka: censorship
Proletkult + Avant Garde
Propaganda
Lissitsky The Red Wedge
Stalin
1937: the worker + the collective farm woman
Personality cult
High Stalinism post 1945
S wearing white
Socialist realism turned art into a machine of the state
Sergey Eisenstein
It wasn't
K
Increase in Samizdat + Tamizdat literature
Syntax
Propaganda + pc undermined by growth in dissident lit
Cultural Thaw? Success? Helped DeStalinisation. Solzhenitsyn
B
Over 1200 dissident authors
Bulldozer exhibition 1974 failure
Sinyavsky-Daniel trial 1964
450 western mags available on the black market
cynicism: B's PC cult failed bc implausible
lost battle against non-conformity + western culture that was influenced through dissidents
Relaxation of terror led to lack of ctrl of art + culture