Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)Cultural Revolution Emphasis on class war anti-bourgeois Emphasis on “proletarian” cultureSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Return to conventional values Women & the Family• exaltation of motherhood• traditional family structure & valuesSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Discipline & structure ranks, titles, decorations manners, pomp & circumstance patriotism & historicism• emphasis on Russia’s glory, past & futureSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Stalinist history Marxist interpretation re-writing of events demonization & removal of Stalin’s enemiesTHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Education no more experimentation emphasis on memorization specialization rigid Marxist ideologySOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist RealismSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist Realism Grandiose architectureSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGETHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist RealismSOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE Grandiose architectureTHE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)The “Great Retreat” Cult of Stalin link to Lenin, Marx glorification & deification SOCIAL & CULTURAL
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