The Soviet Russia Lecture 3 Lyra Riabov Associate Professor Southern New Hampshire University
The Soviet Russia The End of Romanov Dynasty Ten Days that Shook the XX th Century Lenin’s Experimentations with Marxist Economy Stalin’s Socialism and Terror German Invasion of the USSR Khrushchev’s Attempts for the Liberalization of the Soviet Society
The End of Romanov Dynasty OlgaTatiana Nicolas MarieAnastasiaAlexei Alexandra
“A Dreamer in the Kremlin” Herbert Wells
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin The Year 1918 in Petrograd (1920)
“Defend Petrograd” (1918) “Comrade Lenin Sweeps the Globe Clean” (1920) “The Illiterate” (1920) “March 8, Women's Emancipation” (1920) "Mothers of the World“(1958); "Lenin's Dreams" (1961) “Army" (1982); "Army and People" (1988)
White Sea – Baltic Sea Canal was one of the first "great construction projects of Communism", which relied exclusively on the labor of prisoners Over 100,000 prisoners dug a 227-kilometer long canal Tens of thousands died in the process This Famous sculpture by Vera Mukhina The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman became an icon of Soviet art. It typified the gendered depiction of workers and peasants. “We stand for Peace” Stalin, Molotov and Ribbentrop. Treaty with Hitler Germany Stalin’s Socialism: Industrialization, Collectivization, Treaty with Hitler. Stalin’s Terror: purges and labor of prisoners. About 35 million people were exterminated between
Meeting (Feb. 4-11, 1945), at Yalta, Crimea, USSR, of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. WWII Death Toll : USSR:Military: 12 million. Civilian: 17 million. Total: 29 million USA: Military: 407,000. Civilian: 6,000. Total: 413,000 Stalingrad, 1943 Moscow, June 1945
Khrushchev Denounces Stalin: “Secret Speech” (1956) First Sputnik is launched (1957) An attempt for liberalization Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (1957) The shoot down of the American U-2 surveillance plane (1960) Gagarin space flight (1961) Solzhenitsin: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar" (1962) Cuban missile crisis (1962) Fail of reform in agriculture: starvation (1963) Fall of Khrushchev (1964) Khruschev admires Van Cliburn who had just won the First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow (1958). “Peaceful Coexistence” From Thaw to Stagnation
Nathan Altman: Portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1914)
Lenin Stalin Khrushchev Brezhnev Andropov Chernenko Gorbachev Yeltsin Putin 2000-present