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@cptsdhaver replied to your post “jesus christ this image somehow looks even worse as an icon”

dude it's great!

THANK YOU i feel like hes going to emerge from my screen and attack me

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i'm tryina read up more on like state policy on art of the ussr and especially why socialist realism came to prominence. know maxim gorky kinda plays a big role in this regard but it's a lil difficult finding official sources in translation or any secondary sources which aren't primarily interested in lambasting the soviets. i'd also b interested as to why say prolekult ended for example. wonderin if ya have any recs.

You will probably find some of the answers you’re seeking on Sheila Fitzpatrick’s “Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931.” But to answer your question: you can say that socialist realism came to prominence thanks to the Soviet cultural revolution of the late 1920′s, early 1930′s.

The New Economic Policy paved the way for individualist bourgeois tendencies to assault cultural institutions. Much of the Russian avant-garde movement and Proletkult pursued to serve the interests of individual artists, and sought higher degrees of independence from the state apparatus obviously not to serve the masses better but for the sake of individual interests (personal enrichment). Needless to say all institutions under the dictatorship of the proletariat - especially the ones in charge of moulding society - must be under the control of the proletariat and the collective interests of workers and peasants.

Once the NEP ran its course and the CPSU (B) came to the correct conclusion that there was nothing more to benefit from it unless the objective was capitalist restoration, a major shift in relations of production caused panic among certain groups who had managed themselves into a comfortable lifestyle while the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union struggled to recover from a very costly world war and civil war. It was quickly understood by the Communist Party that to combat counter-revolutionary attitudes and eliminate many of the ideas of Tsarist days and now a society under NEP, a cultural revolution was necessary.

This cultural revolution pushed forward revolution within cultural institutions, pushing out what were effectively NEP cultural elites, and replacing them with workers and peasants, fostering a new intelligentsia, a Soviet proletarian intelligentsia equipped with Marxism and new ideas, not burdened by the teachings and ideologies of the old world. But this is just one among many targets the Soviet cultural revolution sought to destroy, and rebuild under proletarian dictatorship.

In many ways it was a success but the CPSU (B) failed to recognise the importance of maintaining an active cultural revolution, and not just for a brief period of time.

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@cptsdhaver replied to your post “no talk with me i only listen to metal now”

bro if u haven't already u should listen to gorgoroth. gay lead singer kvlt originals.

👀 THANK U im listen

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@cptsdhaver replied to your post “*solid snake voice* post-rock, hunh…………..”

godspeed you! black emperor (v influential n good), bark psychosis and talk talk's last two albums r also really good post-rock

!!!! thank you!!!!!

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@cptsdhaver replied to your post “soundchase replied to your post “cptsdhaver replied to your post ...”

spiderland is very very good too

like it's def in a more weird/angry/sad/disturbing vibe but it's good

ahh i can dig that! sounds interesting

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@cptsdhaver replied to your post “@cptsdhaver replied to your post “*solid snake voice* post-rock,...”

gy!be r like acclaimed and well known. their big album is F♯ A♯ ∞. bark psychosis only came out w/ Hex but i love it. talk talk was like a synth pop group originally but are credited w/ "creating" post-rock. spirit of eden and laughing stock r v v good.

this was My Shit as a teen

explosions in the sky is also a good one

hell yesssss thank you again i’m very digging what i’m hearing so far

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@cptsdhaver replied to your post

thenks jay for the snas content

of course i am happy to deliver