scholarly journals Changing Landscapes: The Provincial Text in Russian-Soviet Culture. Introduction

ENTHYMEMA ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ornella Discacciati ◽  
Emilio Mari
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Culture

Introduction to the monographic section “Changing Landscapes: the Provincial Text in Russian-Soviet Culture.”

A forgotten testimony from the liberated Warsaw. Vasily Grossman on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Volokhova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Writing Strategy ◽  
The Russian Language

Prefacing the first ever publication of V. Grossman’s essay In memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising [Pamyati vosstaniya v Varshavskom getto] (1948) in the Russian language, the article recollects the circumstances and reasons for the piece to have been kept from publication and defines its relevance in the author’s legacy. The work is analyzed in the context of the problems of a literary testimony. The researcher points out that Grossman wrote the story using a special writing strategy, where numerous meanings incompatible with official Soviet culture are incorporated by means of an uncontrollable symbolic subtext, decipherable with certain ‘keys’ created throughout the narrative. In this case, such a ‘key’ is provided by the character of the stocking knitter ofŁodź. The story and the editor’s corrections are reconstructed from an archived, typed manuscript. Also included in the publication and supplied with comments are V. Grossman’s answers to the questionnaire distributed by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to several cultural workers in 1946 ahead of the first Victory Day anniversary. 

Revolution Rekindled

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Jones
Keyword(s):  
Historical Novels ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Soviet Literature ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Revolutionary History ◽  
Gorbachev Era ◽  
Depth Interviews

A major late Soviet initiative, the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ (Plamennye revoliutsionery) series, was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, eventually giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels authored by many key post-Stalinist writers. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of readers engage with these highly varied texts? To what extent does this Brezhnev-era publishing phenomenon challenge the notion of late socialism as a time of ‘stagnation’, and how does it confirm it? Through exploring the complex processes of writing, editing, censorship, and reading of late Soviet literature, Revolution Rekindled highlights the dynamic negotiations that continued within Soviet culture well past the apparent turning point of 1968 through to the late Gorbachev era. It also complicates the opposition between ‘official’ and underground post-Stalinist culture by showing how Soviet writers and readers engaged with both, as they sought answers to key questions of revolutionary history, ethics, and ideology: it thus reveals the enormous breadth and vitality of the ‘historical turn’ amongst the late Soviet population. Revolution Rekindled is the first archival, oral history, and literary study of this unique late socialist publishing experiment, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to its collapse in the early 1990s. It draws on a wide range of previously untapped archives, uses in-depth interviews with Brezhnev-era writers, editors, and publishers, and assesses the generic and stylistic innovations within the series’ biographies and novels.

Exporting Soviet Culture: The Case of Agitprop Theater

Slavic Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Mally
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Global Influence

In this article Lynn Mally examines the efforts of a Comintern affiliate called MORT (Mezhdunarodnoe ob“edinenie revoliutsionnykh teatrov) to export models of Soviet theatrical performance outside the Soviet Union. Beginning with the first Five-Year Plan, MORT was initially very successful in promoting Soviet agitprop techniques abroad. But once agitprop methods fell into disgrace in the Soviet Union, MORT abruptly changed its tactics. It suddenly encouraged leftist theater groups to move toward the new methods of socialist realism. Nonetheless, many leftist theater circles continued to produce agitprop works, as shown by performances at the Moscow Olympiad for Revolutionary Theater in 1933. The unusual tenacity of this theatrical form offers an opportunity to question the global influence of the Soviet cultural policies promoted by the Comintern. From 1932 until 1935, many foreign theater groups ignored MORT's cultural directives. Once the Popular Front began, national communist parties saw artistic work as an important tool for building alliances outside the working class. This decisive shift in political strategy finally undermined the ethos and methods of agitprop theater.

The Figure of Ivan Turgenev in Soviet Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 416-424
Author(s):  
Irina E. Koznova
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Culture

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF THE NATURE AND DIRECTION OF THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL MOVEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2(71)) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Cholpon Bazarbekovna Alisherova
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Rhythm ◽  
History Of Culture ◽  
Historical Movement

This article highlights the solution to the problem of the nature and direction of the cultural and historical movement. Different options, concepts are considered. The cultural concepts of Schiller, Herder and others are fected. View on the logic of the development of the cultural and historical process of representation of Soviet culture are revealed in detail. The types of evolutionary concepts of culture, such as single-line volition, are a consideration of the history of culture as the sequential development of various systems (religion, morals, economy e.t.c.) with the identification of general stages in it (E.Taylor, J.Fraser, L. Levy-Bruhl). The second type of evolutionary understanding of the logic of cultural-historical dynamics is the theory of universal evolution. Its essence is to recognize the identity of the development of various ethnic cultures, the denzal of the general stages and the general scheme of movement, but the purpose and meaning, of it is understood by its supporters differently Supporters of this theory are N.Ya Danilevsky, A.Toynbee, V.Solovyov, K. Jaspers, B. Malinvsky and others. Their concepts include the idea of the cultural evolution of mankind, going in different ways to some unity, the idea of polyphonic world culture and recognition the equivalence of all its components. The third type of evolutionary doctrine of culture is theories of multilinear evolution. The views of the representatives of this theory (R.Benedict, M. Herskovitz etc.) affirm the polymerization of the sociocultural space, the intrinsic value of different types and models of culture. Thus, the article gives the basic concepts that offer original solutions to one of the important problems in the philosophy of culture the problems of the logic of the cultural-historical movement. Now, in a period of rapid social rhythm of the development of production and non-production activities, the forecasting of changes in space is becoming especially important/ Taking into account the numerous technical and social consequences of the scientific and technological revolution put forward requirements related to spatial forecasting

The Voices of Samizdat and Magnitizdat

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Komaromi
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Audio Tape ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Gulag Archipelago ◽  
The Way

This chapter treats “samizdat” (self-publishing) and “magnitizdat” (audio tape self-publishing) in the late Soviet Union via the concept of the “voice.” Komaromi discusses a select set of examples including guitar poetry; Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, Evgeniia Ginzburg’s camp memoirs; poetry at Maiakovskii Square; and the texts of Leningrad second culture. These examples facilitate exploration of the way samizdat and magnitizdat related to official culture, even as they expanded the range of late Soviet culture far beyond what was allowed in print. They also make it possible to analyze the way samizdat and magnitizdat voices mediated between silence and speech, matter and spirit, presence and absence, and the individual and the collective, creating new ways for Soviet citizens to express themselves and be heard by one another.

Soviet Culture and Soviet Koreans (1920-1930)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Zhanna Son ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Culture

Hypophysis. Anatomical and clinical sketch

1934 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1046-1046
Author(s):  
I. Galant
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Center ◽  
Soviet Culture

Syktyvkar! How many of us have heard this euphonious, alluring with its "mysterious obscurity" name of the center of the Komi region? Soviet culture has also brought Syktyvkar out of oblivion, making it a cultural center that makes us talk about it a lot, and this time it's our turn to talk about Syktyvkar, the medical Syktyvkar.

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