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Life in the USSR: Arts and Sports. By: Clarence Chan and Matthew Upham. Writers Artists Musicians. The Arts. Maxim Gorki Nikolai Ostrovsky Mikhail Sholokov. Writers. Vladimir Tatlin Vera Mukhina. Artists. Sergei Prokofiev Dmitri Shostakovich. Musicians.
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Life in the USSR: Arts and Sports By: Clarence Chan and Matthew Upham
Writers • Artists • Musicians The Arts
Maxim Gorki • Nikolai Ostrovsky • Mikhail Sholokov Writers
Vladimir Tatlin • Vera Mukhina Artists
Sergei Prokofiev • Dmitri Shostakovich Musicians
“Art belongs to the people” • Modernism in art was allowed to flourish during Lenin’s rule • Simple art forms • Understood with ease The effect of Communism
Propaganda • Glorification of the party and Stalin • Sport corresponds to socialism • Defiance to the West • Spartakiads Use of Art and Sport
“Partiionist” • Association of Proletarian Writers • Association of Contemporary Music • Nothing abstract • Socialist Realism • Restricted freedom • Left the Soviet Union “Cultural Revolution” & Reaction