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The hammer stands for the industrial working class and the sickle represents the agricultural workers, therefore together they represent the unity of the two groups. [2] The hammer and sickle was first used during the 1917 Russian Revolution, but it did not appear on the official flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until 1924. [2]
It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing the peasants. [ 1 ] After World War I (from which Russia withdrew in 1917) and the Russian Civil War , the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for labor within the Soviet Union (USSR) and ...
The Soviet-Marxist interpretation is the belief that the Russian Revolution under the Bolsheviks was a proud and glorious effort of the working class which saw the removal of the Tsar, nobility, and capitalists from positions of power.
Hamlet particularly had a draw for Russians, and was seen to provide insight into the workings and complexities of Russian life after the 1917 revolution. [60] Playwrights attempted to express their feelings about life around them while additionally following the guidelines of socialist realism, a way of reinventing old shows.
Proletkult (Russian: Пролетку́льт, IPA: [prəlʲɪtˈkulʲt]), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917.
[7]: 11 The earliest propaganda posters in Soviet Russia appeared in August 1918 [7]: 11 and focused on the Russian Civil War, with this remaining the primary subject until 1921. [4] Between 1919 and 1921, the Russian Telegraph Agency produced ROSTA windows, posters which featured simplified cartoons and short pieces of text or mottoes. [8]
The Russian Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, 208 pages. ISBN 0-19-280204-6; Hosking, Geoffrey. The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (2nd ed. Harvard UP 1992) 570pp; Gregory, Paul R. and Robert C. Stuart, Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure (7th ed. 2001) Kort, Michael.
Russian writers and philosophers have played an important role in the development of European thought. [3] [4] The Russians have also greatly influenced classical music, [5] ballet, [6] sport, [7] painting, [8] and cinema. [9] The nation has also made pioneering contributions to science and technology and space exploration. [10] [11]