1917 Centenary

1917 Centenary

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

Vladimir Lenin

Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and Aram Khachaturian
Monday, 11 December 2017 13:53

A wave of creativity: music and the Russian Revolution

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Sabby Sagall describes the wave of creativity unleashed by the Russian Revolution, altering the course of twentieth century classical music. The carnage and brutality of World War One had punctured the balloon of late nineteeth-century optimism and established that the industrial and scientific progress of capitalism had not led to…
What’s Left? A Century in Revolution
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 29 November 2017 10:07

What’s Left? A Century in Revolution

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What’s Left? A Century in Revolution By Andy Byford, Anoush Ehteshami, Abir Hamdar, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián & Dušan Radunović Between 29 September and 8 October 2017, Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle and Durham University staged a special programme of screenings and talks to mark the centenary of the 1917 October Revolution.…
Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 12 November 2017 20:00

Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture

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Mike Quille outlines some of the ways the Russian Revolution has influenced art and culture across the world in the last 100 years. The Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 was the world’s first attempt to create a socialist society. It was based on the active support of the majority of the…
The Art of Revolution
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 12 November 2017 19:12

The Art of Revolution

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Jenny Farrell celebrates the democratising power of Revolutionary art. With the Russian Revolution of 1917, the dispossessed took control over their destiny, for the first time in history. How did artists respond to this liberation? Artists from all artistic movements worked with Soviet power. The revolution offered the state and…
Flight and Fall
Friday, 03 November 2017 18:17

Flight and Fall

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David Betteridge has written a commemorative work of prose and poetry especially for this Russian Revolution section of Culture Matters. An extract from the poetry is given in ebook format here, along with some illustrations by Bob Starrett. Flight and Fall looks back at the events of 1917 from the standpoint of Glasgow in 2017.  
 Let Us Unite All the Forces of Science with the Creative Energy of the Working Class
Friday, 03 November 2017 21:38

Revolution and Science under the Bolsheviks

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Andy Byford explains how science became one of the centrepieces of the Boshevik revolutionary imagination. In Russia, 1917 was a year of two very different revolutions. The downfall of tsarism in February was a point of historic rupture – an overturn of history, a momentous departure from the past. The…
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