- Russian Revolution

 

 

 

 


Moor, Have You Volunteered?  1920.


Malevich, Red Square (1915)


 Tatlin, Model for
Monument to the Third International (1919)


The Soviet and Electrification (1921)


Voron, For Shock-Brigade Reaping and for a Bolshevik Harvest  Poster. 1934


Fomin, Abrosimov, Minkus, Commissariat of Heavy Industry, Perspective, 1934


Poster for Eisenstein's October (1928)


Laktionov: Portrait of Stalin (1949)


Vladimirski, Roses for Stalin. (1949)


 Deineka (1899-1969) Collective Farm Worker on a Bicycle  1935


Efimov, Ezhov's Iron Glove (1937)

Key Questions

 

 

 
  • What was the relationship between the mode of production and the values and political/social structures of Imperial Russia? How did this shift over the course of the 1920s and 1930s?
  • To what degree was the Russian Revolution caused by the stress and impact of World War I, the failures of modernization attempts, and/or the ineptitude of Nicholas II?
  • To what degree were the revolutions of 1917 popular movements for change?
  • What was the impact of the Russian Revolution on Russian society? On artistic expression? On history?
  • How has the history of the Russian Revolution been refashioned and used by subsequent generations for their own contemporary purposes?
  • How did the Bolsheviks use artistic expression in literature, art and music to bolster their ideology and solidify their regime?

Russian Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

Russian Rev Art:

Russian Rev Literature:

Russian Rev Music:

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Primary Sources:

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Primary Sources:

Lenin:

Stalin:

The Power Struggle:

Collectivization: 

Stalin:
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Deineka, The River (1944)


Denieka, Untitled 1937


Kotliarov,  Portrait of Stakhanov (1938)


Mukhina, Worker and Collective Farm Girl  (1937)

Russian Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

Russian Rev Art:

Russian Rev Literature:

Russian Rev Music:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:

Secondary Sources:
1905:
  • Williams, Russia 1905 (History Today)

1917-1924

The Stalin Revolution:

  •  1818 Leon Theremin's remarkable music machine

Russian Rev Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious

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Lesson Plans and Presentations:

Lesson Plans and Presentations:

Lesson Plans and Presentations:

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