Russian Revolution 1917-1927 Historical Inquiry: Artistic Literary Movements

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Links to the film industry.

Pauline Fairclough discusses the impact of the Russian Revolution on Russian composers’ lives and careers.
During the year of revolution – the February and October revolutions of 1917 – and the bitter Civil War that followed, Russia’s musical life seemed as though it would fall apart entirely.

A discussion of the emergence and continuation of emigre literature during and and after the Russian Revolution. A SLV membership is required to access this article.

“But the new art, which will lay out new landmarks, and which will expand the channel of creative art, can be created only by those who are at one with their epoch… ”
—Trotsky, Literature and Revolution

Full-text eBook full of articles dedicated to the art and culture of Russia as a result of the revolution.

The October Revolution of 1917, led by the Bolshevik party of Vladimir Lenin, marks one of the most important events of the 20th​ century and one the most aesthetically​ ambitious revolutions of modernity.

Mike Quille outlines some of the ways the Russian Revolution has influenced art and culture across the world in the last 100 years.