Category: 1917 Centenary

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

Vladimir Lenin

1917 Centenary

A wave of creativity: music and the Russian Revolution

11 December 2017 / 218

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... Continue reading

Sabby Sagall

1917 Centenary

The Bolsheviks and alcohol: policy and practice

10 December 2017 / 251

Keith Flett offers a brief survey of Bolshevik policy and practice towards alcohol consumption. Drink and the left has been an issue since the labour movement was... Continue reading

Keith Flett

1917 Centenary

What’s Left? A Century in Revolution

29 November 2017 / 221

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... Continue reading

Andy Byford et al

1917 Centenary

Books Please! The Russian Revolution, Arts and Culture

12 November 2017 / 260

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 / 227

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

1917 Centenary

Revolution and Science under the Bolsheviks

3 November 2017 / 249

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 / 218

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

Flight and Fall

3 November 2017 / 224

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 / 260

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

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