1. The Arts, (cinema, music and visual arts) under Stalin
By Ximena Aranda

2. Proletkult Focus moved away from ‘high art’ to ‘popular culture’
Proletkult: proletarian cultural movement (Alexander Bogdanov)
Seemed to be developing as an independent working-class organization
Shut down during 1921 and 1922

3. Arts under stalin
Stalin rejected Western culture and its ‘bourgeois principles’
Artists painted pictures glorifying Stalin  and he dominated many pictures

4. "To have more, we must produce more
"To have more, we must produce more. To produce more, we must know more"

5. How did the Bolsheviks use art in propaganda?
Bolsheviks make used of the art to the service of the new state
Artists of the ‘avant-garde’ were excited by the revolution and embraced it
avant-garde: innovators in the arts

6. Vladimir mayakovsky (1893-1930)
Egotistical young poet, playwright, and artist who worked with the Bolsheviks
Produced posters and 3000 captions or slogans on a wide range of topics
Committed suicide in April 1930
1935 Stalin proclaimed him ‘the best and most gifted poet of our Soviet epoch”

7. ROSTA window poster to mark ‘Remember Red Army Barracks Day’ in 1920
We’ve finished off Russia’s White Guards
The ogre of world capitalism is still alive
ROSTA window poster to mark
‘Remember Red Army Barracks
Day’ in 1920
That means we still need the Red Army
And that means we’ve got to help it out- the task is clear

8. Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
Political idea clearly and simply through an arrangement of geometric shapes
Soviet propaganda poster by artist Lazar Markovich Lissitzky
Red wedge symbolizes the Bolsheviks, who are penetrating
And defeating their opponents

9. Cinema Cinemas were almost entirely restricted to the town
Cinemas was, in theory, the ideal medium of propaganda, visual, technological, and controllable
All-Union Party Congress on Film Questions

10. Serguéi eisenstein
Two of his best-known films: Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928)
1926 Stalin proposed that Eisenstein should make a film on the need for collectivisation
Focused on tractors and a cream separator to symbolize the transition from primitive farming to the mechanised modern agriculture

11. Music
Avant-garde and jazz were outlawed
Shostakovich

12. Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934)
persona non grata
Fourth Symphony
Withdrew the work because it could anger the authorities
Symphony No. 5,
the work displayed lyricism, a heroic tone and inspiration from Russian literature.
The new symphony was a spectacular success, pleasing both the authorities and the public
The music is simpler, but no less dramatic
Stalin found the politics of the music acceptable

13. Bibliography
Soviet Society in the 1920s and 1930s