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LATE NINETEENTH CENTURYRUSSIAN ART, CULTURE, AND
POLITICSEric Beckman
Anoka HS, MN
Russian Identities
WesternizersRussia is between East and West, and
should aim to be more Western
SlavophilesRussia is unique and should embrace its distinctive culture
Westernizing Ideas:Rejecting Russian Uniqueness
Liberal Capitalism
Revolutionary Socialism
Western CultureRussian
Culture as backwards
• Free politics• Constitutional
Democrats• Industrial
development• Marxism: Social
Democrats• Rejected Liberalism
and the Old Regime
• Literature & Languages
• Musical forms
• Orthodoxy• Peasantry
Slavophile Ideas:Embracing Russia’s Uniqueness
Peasantry
Orthodoxy
Monarchy
Revolutionary Socialism
• Folk tales, songs, and wisdom
• Religious faith• Natural socialists
• True Christianity• Savior to Europe
• Order• Paternalism• Tradition
• Go to the people• Socialist Revolutionaries
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov,The Morning of the Streltsy’s Execution, 1881
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov, Boyarina Morozova, 1887
Pictures at An Exhibition
Pictures by Viktor Hartmann
Piano music by Modest Mussorgsky
Orchestrated by others, most famously by Maurice Ravel
Mussorgsky
The Great Gate of Kiev
Hut of Baba Yaga
Sources of Discontent
Nationalism
Peasantry
Proletariat
Intelligentsia
Radicalized Intelligentsia:Revolutionaries
Populists• People’s Will• Socialist Revolutionaries
Nihilists
Anarchists
Marxist Socialists•Social Democrats• Menshiviki• Bolsheviki