THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T)
Cultural Revolution Emphasis on class war anti-bourgeois Emphasis on “proletarian” culture SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Return to conventional values Women & the Family exaltation of motherhood traditional family structure & values SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Discipline & structure ranks, titles, decorations manners, pomp & circumstance patriotism & historicism emphasis on Russia’s glory, past & future SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Stalinist history Marxist interpretation re-writing of events demonization & removal of Stalin’s enemies
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Education no more experimentation emphasis on memorization specialization rigid Marxist ideology SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist Realism SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist Realism Grandiose architecture SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Arts & Literature Party control Socialist Realism SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE Grandiose architecture
THE STALINIST REVOLUTION (CON’T) The “Great Retreat” Cult of Stalin link to Lenin, Marx glorification & deification SOCIAL & CULTURAL CHANGE