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THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
Cultural Revolution
Emphasis on class war
anti-bourgeois
Emphasis on “proletarian” culture
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Return to conventional values
Women & the Family
• exaltation of motherhood
• traditional family structure & values
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Discipline & structure
ranks, titles, decorations
manners, pomp & circumstance
patriotism & historicism
• emphasis on Russia’s glory, past & future
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Stalinist history
Marxist interpretation
re-writing of events
demonization & removal of Stalin’s enemies
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Education
no more experimentation
emphasis on memorization
specialization
rigid Marxist ideology
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Arts & Literature
Party control
Socialist Realism
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Arts & Literature
Party control
Socialist Realism
Grandiose architecture
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Arts & Literature
Party control
Socialist Realism
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
Grandiose architecture
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
The “Great Retreat”
Cult of Stalin
link to Lenin, Marx
glorification & deification
SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE