Revolution And Culture

Author : Zenovia A. Sochor
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801420881

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Revolution and Culture by Zenovia A. Sochor Pdf

Zenovia A. Sochor here assesses one of the most important debates within the Bolshevik leadership during the early years of Soviet power-that between A. A. Bogdanov and V. I. Lenin. Once comrades-in-arms, Bogdanov and Lenin became political rivals prior to the October Revolution. Their disagreements over political and cultural issues led to a split in the Bolshevik Party, with Bogdanov spearheading the party's left-wing faction and attracting a following of notable intellectuals. Before Lenin died in 1924, however, he had succeeded in shaping Soviet society according to his own vision, and today Bolshevism is commonly identified with Leninism while Bogdanovism is little known. Sochor provides the first full exposition in English of Bogdanov's views, which, she asserts, must be understood to appreciate the choices available and the paths not taken during the formative years of the Soviet regime.

Author : Alessandro Russo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478012184

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Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo Pdf

In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical “prologue” of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.

Author : Barbara Mittler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684175185

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A Continuous Revolution by Barbara Mittler Pdf

Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art—music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature—from the point of view of its longue durée, Barbara Mittler suggests it was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience.

Author : Mary K. Vaughan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0816516766

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Cultural Politics in Revolution by Mary K. Vaughan Pdf

"Innovative study of the cultural legacy of the Mexican Revolution, using the story of rural schools. Focuses on Puebla and Sonora and the attempt by the central government to implement socialist education and to advance its nationalist agenda. Stresses the importance of negotiation among national and local leaders, teachers and peasants"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674040410

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Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals Pdf

Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

Author : Roderick MacFarquhar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0231057172

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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar Pdf

The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chines from the mid-1950s to he mid-1960s, this volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward--Mao's utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-fist century by mobilizing his nation's greatest asset: its disciplined, manpower. The effort produced economic disaster and political dissension, and helped to precipitate the Sino-Soviet split. Today's leaders point to it as the beginning of two decades of national trauma, which ended only after the death of Mao and the purge of the Gang of Four. Those leaders have recently authorized the release of a mass of new documentation in the form of political reminiscences, economic statistics, and leaders' speeches. This volume is the first scholarly work to use the new material comprehensively, weaving it into the narrative along with the contemporary record and the revelations published in Red Guard newspapers during the cultural revolution. The result is the most detailed account and analysis to date of what went wrong and why.

Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408856512

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The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikötter Pdf

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The stated goal of the Cultural Revolution was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. But the Chairman also used the Cultural Revolution to turn on his colleagues, some of them longstanding comrades-in-arms, subjecting them to public humiliation, imprisonment and torture. Young students formed Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. When the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the marked and hollow out the party's ideology. In short, they buried Maoism. In-depth interviews and archival research at last give voice to the people and the complex choices they faced, undermining the picture of conformity that is often understood to have characterised the last years of Mao's regime. By demonstrating that decollectivisation from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, Frank Dikotter casts China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light. Written with unprecedented access to previously classified party documents from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches, this third chapter in Frank Dikotter's extraordinarily lucid and ground-breaking 'People's Trilogy' is a devastating reassessment of the history of the People's Republic of China.

Author : V. I. Lenin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434463524

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On Culture and Cultural Revolution by V. I. Lenin Pdf

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.

Author : Melissa Kirschke Stockdale,Steven Gary Marks,Boris Kolonitskii,Murray Frame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political culture
ISBN : 0893579238

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Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-22 by Melissa Kirschke Stockdale,Steven Gary Marks,Boris Kolonitskii,Murray Frame Pdf

Author : Joseph W. Esherick,Paul G. Pickowicz,Andrew G. Walder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 080476798X

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The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History by Joseph W. Esherick,Paul G. Pickowicz,Andrew G. Walder Pdf

Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the center of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential "revolutionary" leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China.

Author : George Levitine
Publisher : College Park, Md. : Department of Art History, University of Maryland at College Park
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056875373

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Culture and Revolution by George Levitine Pdf

Author : Jacopo Galimberti,Noemi de Haro García,Victoria H. F. Scott
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781526117496

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Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Jacopo Galimberti,Noemi de Haro García,Victoria H. F. Scott Pdf

This is the first book to explore the global influence of Maoism on modern and contemporary art. Featuring eighteen original essays written by established and emerging scholars from around the world, and illustrated with fascinating images not widely known in the west, the volume demonstrates the significance of visuality in understanding the protean nature of this powerful worldwide revolutionary movement. Contributions address regions as diverse as Singapore, Madrid, Lima and Maputo, moving beyond stereotypes and misconceptions of Mao Zedong Thought's influence on art to deliver a survey of the social and political contexts of this international phenomenon. At the same time, the book attends to the the similarities and differences between each case study. It demonstrates that the chameleonic appearances of global Maoism deserve a more prominent place in the art history of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Leora Auslander
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845202600

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Cultural Revolutions by Leora Auslander Pdf

The revolutions in the United States, France & England ushered in the modern political age. 'Cultural Revolutions' analyzes the place of material culture, ritual, & everyday life during these revolutions, providing a fresh & engaging discourse on the way in which the minds of the masses were transformed from monarchism to republicanism.

Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0520057406

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Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt Pdf

"In this interpretation of the French Revolution, Professor Hunt argues that it gave birth to many essential characteristics of modern politics -- in particular, it marks the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. The author emphasizes the dynamic interaction between the socio-cultural and political, between the unconscious structures of symbolic forms and the collective actions of committed politicians."--Back cover

Author : Alessandro Russo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1478009527

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Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo Pdf

Alessandro Russo rethinks the history of China's Cultural Revolution, arguing that it must be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself.