Blog – Page 110 – Culture Matters

JD Meatyard

15 November 2017 / 390

Chris Guiton interviews jd meatyard, who describes himself as a left field artist much favoured in his Levellers 5 and Calvin Party days by the late great John... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

1917 Centenary

Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture

12 November 2017 / 426

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... Continue reading

Mike Quille

1917 Centenary

The Art of Revolution

12 November 2017 / 355

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... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Books

On Fighting On – An Anthology of Poems from the Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2017

7 November 2017 / 410

On Fighting On – An Anthology of Poems from the Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2017 £5 (plus £1.50 p&p) ISBN 978-1-907464-24-9. Culture Matters has published a new... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

1917 Centenary

Revolution and Science under the Bolsheviks

3 November 2017 / 410

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... Continue reading

Andy Byford

1917 Centenary

Framing the Russian Revolution

3 November 2017 / 350

Dennis Broe takes Western cultural institutions and critics to task for their failure to properly convey the revolutionary energy of Soviet art and politics after 1917. This... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

1917 Centenary

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... Continue reading

David Betteridge

1917 Centenary

Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution

3 November 2017 / 441

Megan Behrent considers what we can learn from the great strides made in education in revolutionary Russia. “All Russia was learning to read, and reading – politics,... Continue reading

Megan Behrent

Sport

Sport and the Russian Revolution

31 October 2017 / 340

Gareth Edwards considers the changing attitudes to sport that resulted from the Russian Revolution. In 1917 the Russian Revolution turned the world upside down, inspiring millions of... Continue reading

Gareth Edwards

Music

Lankum

29 October 2017 / 396

Mike Quille interviews Ian Lynch from the four-piece traditional Irish folk group Lankum, formerly known as Lynched, who are currently on tour. Mike: I appreciate you must... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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JD Meatyard

Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture

The Art of Revolution

On Fighting On – An Anthology of Poems from the Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2017

Revolution and Science under the Bolsheviks

Framing the Russian Revolution

Flight and Fall

Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution

Sport and the Russian Revolution

Lankum

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