History 328
History of the Soviet Union since 1917
February 14, 2001
Creating a New Culture
I. Cultural revolution as revolutionary project
A. Long-term cultural transformation
B. Short-term crisis of cultural values (March 2)
II. Long-term cultural transformation
A. Creating new cultural forms
1. Cult of the machine
2. League of Time
3. Constructivism in art and architecture
4. Problems of reception: what do the people want?
B. Norms for socialist living
1. Old norms
a. Nepmen
b. kulaks
c. religion
2. New norms
a. godlessness
b. leisure (Trotsky: "Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema")
c. manners and morals (gender relations)
d. new red rituals
