Radical Russia: Art, Culture and Revolution
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 186248073
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
- ISBN
- 9780946009725
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Radical Russia was shown at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA) between October 2017 and February 2018 and brought together objects from around the globe. The exhibition was devoted to showing the breadth and multi-faceted nature of revolution by revealing the tensions across Russian society in the early twentieth century. Peter Waldron’s research has analysed how Russian society and culture became fluid and uncertain in the first years of the twentieth century and this paved the way for the 2017 book which accompanied the exhibition entitled Radical Russia. Art, Culture and Revolution. The catalogue gives further insight into the nature of the Russian revolution, and in particular the significance of culture in the revolutionary process and the ways in which cultural concepts were transmitted. Weaving together the tensions across the political spectrums, the book shows how radical culture emerged from the fraught atmosphere of post-1900 Russia and discusses the relationship between revolutionary politics and culture, analysing how initial enthusiasm for political revolution became tempered in the years after 1917. Accompanied by 96 illustrations of paintings, postage stamps, photographs and household objects, the catalogue represents a vivid and broad depiction of revolutionary taste. It also includes a 1925 photograph (p. 78) of a wooden model of Vladimir Tatlin's sculpture Monument to the Third International, that remained unbuilt in the 1920s due to material shortages but is now constructed in red metal in the grounds of the SCVA. The varying responses from radical Russian culture to the development of an increasingly rigid and unforgiving regime form the coda to the book, demonstrating the continuing fissiparous nature of radicalism. In Radical Russia, Art, Culture and Revolution, Waldron suggests that there was no inevitability about the path that Russia was to take in 1917 and after.
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- Non-English
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