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Russian Culture Timeline: The Soviet Period

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff

Timeline: Russian Culture Part IV: The Soviet Period by David Johnson

1920	1935	1958	1974	2000	Back: Rise of Russia

1918	Greatest Russian symbolist poet, Aleksandr Blok, writes The Twelve, the ultimate poem of the revolution, applauds Communist takeover Top
1920	Avant-garde artists publish Realistic Manifesto; endorse new artistic directions Top
1922	Officials increasingly hostile toward avant-garde art Constructivist sculptors (and brothers) Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner leave Russia, experiment with space, form, create dynamic works, revolutionize modern sculpture Painter Marc Chagall leaves Russia for Paris, becomes major success, draws on cubism, Russian folk art; forerunner of surrealism Top
1923- circa 1985	Ministry of Culture takes over Russian art, mandates standards of Socialist Realism in creative arts Top
1925	Dmitri Shostakovich, first musical child of revolution, composes First Symphony Sergei Eisenstein releases film Battleship Potemkin, winning international acclaim, developed montage editing technique montage Top
1935	Leading originator of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky, living in Paris, paints Movement, features irregular shapes Top
1958	Boris Pasternak wins Nobel Prize in Literature for novel Doctor Zhivago, influenced by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy; insights into Communist society prompt authorities to force him to refuse prize Top
1962	To encourage anti-Stalin sentiment, Premier Nikita Khrushchev personally allows publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a devastating account of Soviet concentration camps Top
1974	After The Gulag Archipelago published abroad, Solzhenitsyn is deported; wins Nobel Prize in Literature, 1974; today, admired, leading Russian intellectual Top
Circa 1985	General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev /id/A0821290 allows greater intellectual freedom, glasnost Top
2000	Russian Orthodox Church bestows sainthood on Czar Nicholas and 1,000 others killed by Communists Top
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