History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev

Fin-de-Siecle Culture: Decadence and Iconoclasm (1x23)

Data de estreia: Mar 23, 2022

Was Russia heading toward crisis and even revolution on the eve of World War I? This lecture explores that still-debated question by examining two major cultural trends that surfaced between the 1905 revolution and the war: decadence, as evidenced by new attitudes in literature, art and entertainment; and futurism, with its willingness to "shock the philistine" in style and art, its attraction to primitivism and abstraction, and its embrace of modernity.