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MYP 4-5
History
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in Russia, which
In 1917, there was a revolution
the Provisional
overthrew the Tsar. However,
ruled Russia, was itself
Government, which then
who followed the ideas
overthrown by the Bolsheviks,
led by
aiming for a revolution
of Karl Marx, and were
the proletariat or workers.
Lenin
by Vladimir Lenin. When
The Bolsheviks were led
a civil war against antidied in 1924, after surviving
succeeded by Joseph Stalin.
Bolshevik forces, he was
totalitarian state during
Russia became a one-party
Critical-thinking
skills – Evaluate
arguments
evidence and
of
◆■ Assessment oppor
◆■
WHAT WAS SOCIALISTCase
study: Vsevo
lod Meye
REALISM?
o
pr
tunities
In this activity
you have practised
assessed using
skills that are
Criterion D: Thinking
critically.
SOURCE A
(1874on
rhold
in
–1940
)
end to all experimentati
In the 1930s Stalin put an
‘Stalinist art was
upon.ldInstead,
Meyerho
counterfeit [false];
were looked down
was a well-kno
its great power
art. Avant-garde artists
in its ability to exchange
wn theatre director.
resided
type of art
also a founder
He was
an artificial world
the officially approved
of the avant-ga
Socialist Realism became
the real one. The
surreptitiously for
rde theatre which
victims of this sleight
had
nearly 60 years. flourished in the 1920s when
of hand were shown
in the Soviet Union for
entirely imaginary
this period.
the Bolsheviks
an
and yet seemingly
took over.
movement in
Realism
1937 Meyerho
realistic and self-consi
to the In
universe over and
ld decided to produce
Socialist Realism had similarities
stent
over again. The
the
at
artists
–
Russian
a play based
make-believe universe
anda workers
novel by Nikolai
– peasants on
of references to
Revolution in 1917,
Ostrovsky, called
was full
itself. For example,
Following the Bolshevik
that it put ordinary people
the
How the Steel
was in common life
there was a series
about a mythical
new art forms that rejected
and showed ordinary people Tempered. However, the play
art
of films
of
also experimented with
centre
revolution
were
was not allowed
ary character called
it did not follow
bourgeois art. These artists
more real to audience
as
Maxim. He was
the rules for Socialist
bourgeois way of life and
situations.
s than a historical
Realism; it was
realistic about
character. At the
World War Two
the horrors of
time of
movement of the second
it was Maxim who
known as ‘avant-garde’.
the Russian Civil
had occurred
However, unlike the Realism
turned to the Soviet
War that
encouraging them
in the 1920s, but
could not portray
in this period was the
people,
to fight … For socialist
this was not the
nineteenth century, artists
the
realism
of
One movement which emerged
half
that wasRealism
kind of
it was meant to],
realist art to [do
that
what
Constructivists believed
it had to enjoy complete
as they saw them. Socialist now expected.
Constructivist movement.
ordinary people exactly
completely dominate
monopoly … it
should be
In 1937,and glorify
had to
for art’s sake’ or that art
the artistic world.’
aim, which was to highlight Meyerhold was attacked
there should not be ‘art
in Pravda (the
be used to had a political
ideal
thenewspap
Kenez, P. Cinema
towardsent
strugglegovernm
but rather that art should
and Soviet Society:
er) and then his
separate from society –
the proletariat’s (workers’)
From the Revolution
Vladimir
theatre was
closed. His views
the movement’s founders,
to the Death
on Socialist Realism
change society. One of
socialist state.
of Stalin, I.B. Tauris,
can be seen
in Source B. He
p. 145.
not the new, but the necessary’.
was arrested,
at the first All-Union
1934January
Tatlin, wrote, ‘Not the old,
tortured and shot
SOURCE B
and
Andrei Zhdanov, in a speech
1940.
in
the Bolshevik Revolution
first used the term ‘Socialist
Constructivists supported
Congress of Soviet Writers,
culture based on the
proletarian
faithfully’,
new
‘I,
life
a
for
one, find the work
art should ‘depict
wanted to create
help alter
of our theatres
Realism’. He explained that
and
technology. Art was to
at present pitiful
terrifying. This pitiful
worker and on industrial
its revolutionary development’,
and
and sterile somethin
they lived
while showing ‘reality in
must
people dressed to how
g that aspires to
title of socialist
everything – from the way
be able to show our heroes,
realism has nothing
the
that ‘Soviet literature must
in common with
go to the Moscow
Although he was talking
art …
and how they travelled.
theatres and look
be able to glimpse our tomorrow’.
at the colourless
used
arts.
productions which
, boring
in ‘industrial style’, which
ideas were to apply to all
are all so alike and
Everything was constructed
about literature, the same
differ only in their
of worthlessness
straight lines.
degree
… In your efforts
geometrical shapes and
to eradicate formalism
have destroyed
, you
art!’
e
pl
e
pl
m
am
Sa
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■■ ATL
■■
1 In Source A,
what points does
Peter Kenez make
about Socialist
Realism as an
art form in the
Union?
Soviet
2 In Source B,
in which ways
does the theatre
director Meyerho
ld agree with
Peter Kenez?
3 What do these
sources, and the
information box
on Meyerhold,
reveal about the
link between
and culture in
state
the Soviet Union?
pr
Revolution in Russia
Look inside
ACTIVITY: Critic
s of Socialist
Realism
Thus, in paintings
, workers were
always portraye
heroic way; they
d in a
were always shown
as being happy,
and healthy –
enjoying their
fit
work, which was
develop the Socialist
helping to
state. Bold colours
message was
were used and
easily understo
the
od; such art was
appeal to the
designed to
masses and the
intention was
it, the workers
that, by viewing
and peasants would
see the importan
their work, which
ce of
would help to
educate them
of communism.
in the goals
Stalin describe
d the artists of
Socialist Realism
of the soul’. Posters
as ‘engineers
were the most
common form
type of art in the
of this
Soviet Union.
Sculpture, literature
stage
cinema also
followed Socialist
design for a Constructivist
and
■■ Figure 6.10 1920s
Realism.
Exter
setting in a theatre by Alexandra
f
How did the Bolshevik
Revolution in Russia
affect culture and
society?
S
Meyerhold, V. quoted
6 Do social, cultural
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