HONR 392 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6&7: Sergey Kirov, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Eisenstein
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Make remarkable films and propelled the medium of films in ways others had not. For stanislavsky got a theater for his 8th birthday. Actors were seen as scum of the earth. Wrote a play where the common people (communists) were bad and evil and capitalists were the good guys. Lenin thought the political play by checkov in the moscow art theater represented the country and loved him. Stalin wanted the capitalists portrayed as bad and evil. Loved the play by gorky and wanted it to be called the moscow art theater. Stalin basically got rid of the church but realized something needed to replace it. He started a propaganda that art would replace the church. Turned russia into the most artistically literate place in the world. Stalin started building him a theater and wanted him to do social realism. Meyerhold didn"t want to, so stalin had the theater destroyed. Meyerhold did a silly play that insulted stalin.