HIST 3250Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mikhail Kalinin, Saint Petersburg
22 Feb 2016
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El lissitzky"s poster for the opera victory over the sun (1923) Translation of text all is well that begins well and has no end: cultural revolution. Communism is power of the soviets plus electrification (1925) Political way of thinking passed through the generation. Emerged in 1917, first few days of the february revolution. First started with the destruction of the old: destruction of the old . Taking down symbols of the old regime. Ripping off the imperial emblems on their uniforms and tying a red ribbon, symbolizing the revolution. Getting rid of anything that had to do with the old regime. When the bolsheviks came to power they tried to protect the monuments. Famous scene dismantling of the monument of aleksandr ii in 1918 (bolsheviks taking it down to try and save it) Poem by demian bednyi: the revolutionary style. New symbol is a badge which showed a red star, a hammer and a plough.
