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Introduction to Russian
Culture
RUSN 2303
Index of web resources: Weeks 11-15
Second Midterm (March 31)
--Silver Age Art
Links:
Art Index by Artist's Last Name
Another Index by Artist's Name (This one has an excellent selection of Vrubel works.)
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--Early Twentieth Century Music and Dance
Links:
Ballets Russes (Follow links to Serge Grigoriev and Anna Pavlova)
Class notes on the Ballets Russes
The Rite of Spring (You will have to scroll up down about a fifth of the page to get to the part on "The Rite of Spring".)
Ballets Russes: The Massine Years (The text is optional. Look at all of the pictures, though.)
Igor Stravinsky (Follow the links to the explanation of Stravinsky's sketch and the timeline of his life. You may also want to check out the compendium of his works.)
Scriabin Music (in Real Audio format)
Rachmaninov Music (in Real Audio format)
Shostakovich Music (in Real Audio format)
Optional:
More on Shostakovich (A virtual sea of links.)
--Early Twentieth Century Drama and Cinema
Links:
The Moscow Arts Theater in Brief
Stage Design, Costume Design, and a Good Picture of Meyerhold
Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky"
Optional:
On Meyerhold's work with Actors
Links:
Britannica's entries on Josef Stalin:
The Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit (When exploring this site, you should make sure to visit all of the links listed below and whatever else interests you. Read the documents that are linked to each of the required links.)
Required Links for the Soviet Archives Exhibit:
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Materials on Soviet History from the NEP through the Times of Stalin
"Dizzy with Success" (Article by Stalin about "mistakes" of early collectivization efforts)
Stalin: Rise of the Beast, an on-line Book about Stalin (Historical Fiction)
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--Socialist Realism
Links:
Socialist Realist Painting: Workers and Peasants
Socialist Realist Painting: Leaders
Gallery with Socialist Realist Paintings
The Stalin Skyscrapers of Moscow
Optional:
More Socialist Realist Painting (Seven Pages)
Links:
The Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact ("Treaty of Nonagression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics")
Secret Protocol to the Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact (In which Poland, the Baltic States, and Bessarabia are divided)
The Soviet Union in WWII (Grolier.com)
Industrialization as the Key to Victory
The Battle of Stalingrad (Links to Photos and Information. Look at some of the photos. The text links are optional.)
Soviet Women as Pilots in WWII
Piskariovskoe Memorial Cemetery (Mass Graves of the Victims of the Leningrad Siege)
The "Mamaev Kurgan" War Memorial Complex in Volgograd (Go to all nine points of interest in the tour.)
World War II Memorial at Poklonnaia Gora
The St. George Cathedral at Poklonnaia Gora
Another View of the St. George Cathedral
Optional:
--The Thaw and Stagnation
Links:
Britannica's entries Nikita Khrushchev
- Introduction
- Early life
- Political career under Stalin
- Leadership of the Soviet Union
- Last years
- Assessment
- Additional reading
Leonid Brezhnev (Most of the material here is optional. You must, however, read the summation at the end.)
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Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis
"Khrushchev's Decline and Fall"
Roy Medvedev on Brezhnev (Good material but the English is awkward at times.)
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April 21 is a day of no classes.
--Literature and Culture in the Sixties and Seventies
Links:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (A brief biography)
Yevtushenko's "The Execution of Stenka Razin"
Works by Ernst Neizvestny:
"Pointing Centaur"
"Athena Born from the Head of Zeus"
Detail of "Athena Born from the Head of Zeus"
"Crucifix"
"Head"
"Mask in Hand"
"Heart of Christ"
Four Neizvestny Drawings
More Neizvestny PaintingsOptional:
Another Solzhenitsyn Biography (With a great number of links at the bottom.)
Links:
Optional:
The Bards Page from Little Russia in US.com
The "Official" Vysotsky Page (Mostly in Russian with some materials in other languages)
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Links:
Optional:
--Post-Soviet Russia
Links:
Post-Soviet Russia (A Chronology)
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--Russian Literature and Culture in the Eighties and Nineties
Links:
A look at some of Moscow's new Architecture (The text is in Russian. You only need to look at the pictures.)
Cathedral of Christ the Savior
Monument to Peter the Great (by Zurab Tsereteli)
Another look at the Monument to Peter the Great
A Tsereteli Sculpture at the Moscow Zoo
Optional:
Mitki (In English with links to more complete Russian versions.)
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