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so i just finished chimes of a lost cathedral the sequel to the revolution of marina m and im curious how accurate its portrayal of the spring to the fall of 1921 is in the final section of the book the short version is that because the bolsheviks are evil dumb authoritarians the whole country was about to collapse until the english and the americans saved them because of political pressure from english labor unions and even though theres food in russia again thanks to the capitalists the bolsheviks are murdering artists now just to show everyone whos boss while you russia history buffs are at it id also appreciate a discussion of the kronstadt revolt the position the book takes is that it was unambiguously good heroic and even communist and i cant help but feel like this potrayal might have been somewhat rose tinted
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Some Guy TT posted:so i just finished chimes of a lost cathedral the sequel to the revolution of marina m and im curious how accurate its portrayal of the spring to the fall of 1921 is in the final section of the book the short version is that because the bolsheviks are evil dumb authoritarians the whole country was about to collapse until the english and the americans saved them because of political pressure from english labor unions and even though theres food in russia again thanks to the capitalists the bolsheviks are murdering artists now just to show everyone whos boss https://twitter.com/alex_orlov_/status/1764249660678414555?t=mi7Rv5g7HDack-uJnCkQYw&s=19
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ok but what about the bolsheviks terminating the house of arts and universal literature also they killed some guys lets see uhh nikolai stepanovich gumilev and prince sergei uktemsky and professor vladimir tagantsev this was something called the petrograd military organization wikis info on it is pretty bare minimum considering this sounds like exactly the kind of evil communist thing noone ever shuts up about
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StashAugustine posted:https://twitter.com/alex_orlov_/status/1764249660678414555?t=mi7Rv5g7HDack-uJnCkQYw&s=19
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Russian futurism wasn't tho
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A Buttery Pastry posted:futurism was proto-fascism, so lenin was a proto-fascist
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StashAugustine posted:https://twitter.com/alex_orlov_/status/1764249660678414555?t=mi7Rv5g7HDack-uJnCkQYw&s=19 lenin was a huge fan of the theremin, possibly the coolest instrument of all time
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Lenin huge fan of electronic music.
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Lenin: huge Moby fan.
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MikeCrotch posted:Russian futurism wasn't tho  having a chuckle imagining the fellas in the politburo reckoning with this weird poo poo
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Orange Devil posted:Lenin huge fan of electronic music. Stalin had Theremin kidnapped to honor Lenin's memory
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in 1962 Khrushchev went to an art exhibition as an overture to civil society and he responded by calling modern art dogshit, and then a few weeks later to try and cool the whole thing down he invited 400 artists to come hear him speak, including Ernst Neizvestnyi, and then this happened:quote:Khrushchev reputedly intended to be conciliatory, but went off script and pointing at one of Neizvestny's statues and demanded: "is that a horse or a cow? Whatever it is, it makes an ugly mockery of a perfectly noble animal." Pointing at another he said: "If that's supposed to be a woman, then you're a human being. And the sentence for them is ten years in prison." He went on to compare looking at Neizvestny's work to being in a toilet looking up while someone else was sitting on it.
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vyelkin posted:in 1962 Khrushchev went to an art exhibition as an overture to civil society and he responded by calling modern art dogshit, and then a few weeks later to try and cool the whole thing down he invited 400 artists to come hear him speak, including Ernst Neizvestnyi, and then this happened: one does have to acknowledge the purity of this reaction, even if it reveals some Problematic things about the one who has it
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vyelkin posted:in 1962 Khrushchev went to an art exhibition as an overture to civil society and he responded by calling modern art dogshit, and then a few weeks later to try and cool the whole thing down he invited 400 artists to come hear him speak, including Ernst Neizvestnyi, and then this happened:
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the soviets took art so seriously, even when they had no taste at all
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tbf I guess this was like a week after the Cuban Missile Crisis so it's possible old Nikita was a little stressed out
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THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS TO BE DONE? - Lenin
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Art reach its zenith with Lady Butler.
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vyelkin posted:in 1962 Khrushchev went to an art exhibition as an overture to civil society and he responded by calling modern art dogshit, and then a few weeks later to try and cool the whole thing down he invited 400 artists to come hear him speak, including Ernst Neizvestnyi, and then this happened: lol
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FirstnameLastname posted:mensheviks means the minority Bolshevik means the majority tmyk 
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galagazombie posted:No one in all of America eats like that. no one puts down the knife or constantly switches hands. Hell most people just cut all their stuff at the start so they can eat without constantly having to stop to cut a new piece. You do this for children, grown adults should not precut the food.
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HootTheOwl posted:You do this for children, grown adults should not precut the food.
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HootTheOwl posted:You do this for children, grown adults should not precut the food. Most americans don't do that. Don't use random statements from goons to judge how normal people live.
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Weembles posted:Most americans don't do that. Don't use random statements from goons to judge how normal people live. I didn't say they did.
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shoving the entire steak in my mouth like an adult
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Raskolnikov38 posted:shoving the entire steak in my mouth like an adult fondly remembering how this turns out to be decisive evidence in the first case of the great attorney chronicles
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Does anyone have a recommendation on reading up on the stuff stalin did at georgia or wherever he was during 1905?
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ContinuityNewTimes posted:Lenin = Moby vyelkin posted:in 1962 Khrushchev went to an art exhibition as an overture to civil society and he responded by calling modern art dogshit, and then a few weeks later to try and cool the whole thing down he invited 400 artists to come hear him speak, including Ernst Neizvestnyi, and then this happened: And yet he made this rather flattering sculpture for Khrushchev's tomb.
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Khrushchev was right about modern art being dogshit, even if he went on an unhinged bigoted rant about it.
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Slowly making my way through this thread (notes app full of book and article recommendations. Have a few things on hold at the library already) but wanted to contribute in my little way while it was on my mind. I was looking into what happened to the real Joe and Josephine Bruin (found some articles say they were sent to a circus and the San Diego Zoo respectively, but it's difficult... impossible even... to find any academic sources that discuss their lives on campus and eventual fates. I did, however, come across some photos of Baylor live bear mascots being goofy little guys. I think parading bears around campuses is a special form of cruelty, but I can't help but chuckle at a bear in a t-shirt. 1983: charles ii/chuck ii visits the texas state capitol and drinks dr. pepper  1984: baylor live bear mascot grady at the computer. on the internet no one knows you are a bear.  this one is a little sad to me. 1971: unidentified bear drinking dr. pepper on baylor campus 
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galagazombie posted:Khrushchev was right about modern art being dogshit, even if he went on an unhinged bigoted rant about it. you hate Van Gogh and Picasso?
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that bear is gaming.
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When I was very young, probably '93 or '94, my family and I went camping somewhere in Ontario and stopped at a roadside restaurant/hotel that had a bear in a cage with a hole to feed it bottles of pop.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:americans precut their children, so we're some ways off from dealing with precutting food Please don't bring circumcision discourse into this thread tia.
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Look the rules are if you want to talk about the history of male genital mutilation in America and beyond that's fine but just don't discuss the current state of affairs. How about that Kellogg?
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I'm looking for a book recommendation and I'm hoping someone here might be able to help -- What I basically want is Rick Perlstein's 'Clintonland', a book that talks about and ties together the cultural and political currents of the 90s. Does anyone know a good book like this?
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no but i can tell you to stay the gently caress away from al from's book on the DLC/clinton presidency, dude is a worse writer than an illiterate monkey flinging poo poo at a keyboard
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Raskolnikov38 posted:no but i can tell you to stay the gently caress away from al just read this and thought you were talking about the poster
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they meant Gore
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