PROVE IT! by David Geisler https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg Prove that not all was bad under the Bolshevik rule en-us 2017-09-05 22:21:20 UTC 2017-09-05 23:20:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Alana and Jade r doing education and literacy https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952390
  • Early campaigns focused almost entirely on Red soldiers with compulsory reading lessons introduced in April 1918, soldiers sang 'Two days of study, then a week in battle. Two days with pencils, a week with bayonets' 
  • Throughout 1920s volunteers travelled the countryside to teach people to read 
  • Mid-1920s, 51% of the population could read/write (compared to 23% at the beginning of the century) 
  • May 1918 schools were standardized and modernized. Attendance in schools was made compulsory and a more collaborative relationship between students and teachers was encouraged; teachers were to be "an older comrade, but not a superior officer" 

    • ]]>     2017-09-05 22:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952390     Matt Jono Richard https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952450 Modernization 
    Lenin believed that a transition towards electricity would solve Russia problems and propel it towards communism. He set up the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia or GOELRO to create power plants and supply as many cities and villages with power as possible. Those in charge of the roll out of electricity were skeptical and thought it would never be achieved, but as Russia recovered from the civil war the electrification became more possible. Lenin saw electricity as the foundation of socialism, it would sway the peasants into communism by providing heat, light and efficiency. One billion roubles were put into the program. By 1924 power was back to pre-revolutionary levels and was continuing to grow.
     
    Electricity will take the place of God. Let the peasant pray to electricity; he’s going to feel the power of central authorities more than that of heaven’ – Lenin 

    ‘We must snatch away God’s thunderbolts, Take ‘em, We can use those volts, For electrification.’ – Mayakovsky 

    ‘the only material basis that is possible for Socialism is large-scale machine industry that is capable of re-organising agriculture. But we cannot confine ourselves to this general thesis … Modern large-scale industry … means the electrification of the whole country … The execution of the first part of the electrification scheme is estimated to take ten years’ – Lenin 

    Electricity output in Russia 1913 - 26 

     | Year | Million Kilowatts
     | 1913 | 1945
     | 1920 | Unknown
     | 1921 | 520
     | 1922 | 775
     | 1923 | 1146
     | 1924 | 1562
     | 1925 | 2925
     | 1926 | 3508
     



    ]]>     2017-09-05 22:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952450     NED - womens rights https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952567 There were vast legislative improvements for women during the new society. For a long time females had played a crucial role as part of the Bolshevik party, known as Bolshevichki. Notable figures such as Inessa Armand, Alexandra Kollontai and Nadezhda Krupskaya were Bolshevichki who put female issues on the political agenda for the new society. There were still underlying misogynistic behaviors in peasant life, seeing female wives as not 'human'. Bolshevik influence was spread out to peasantry regions, women in countrysides were granted equal rights in terms of land ownership and the right to act as the head of the household. 
    "Freeing women from the bonds of patriarchy" was a big movement from the Bolshevik party. In December 1917 the Decree on marriage dictated that marriage was an act of mutual consent and divorce was made more accessible through a straight forward civil process. Equal pay  ]]>     2017-09-05 22:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952567     artistic development https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952619 flynn

    -a passion for modernity and cultural revolution was developed in the arts from the driving force of change of Bolshevism. 
    -commisar for enlightenment Lunacharsky took aim at the creation of a new proletariat 'culture' that would embody all that is socialism. 
    -the events of October 1917 and the civil war heavily inspired a new age of arts in Russia called 'futurism' that rejected all past traditions and glorified technologies. 
    this led to all traditional modes of artistic representation abondened allowing the new proletariat to flourish under socialist influence, in some ways it provided individuals the ability to express themselves through a filter of communism of which the bolsheviks were ok with because it would only further contribute to the conversion of the russian population to there own dominant ideology. ]]>     2017-09-05 22:50:56 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952619     Artistic developments - sam and fraser https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952654 Many saw the revolutionary regime as the dawning of a new age. Futurism, which rejected past traditions and glorified technology, and the Proletarian Culture Movement (Proletcult). Artist's hoped that expressions of a new proletarian-style culture would bring about socialist revolution.  Art was inspired by a range of sources, from factories, coal and steel to dramatic civil war battles and visions of the future. 
    Visual imagery became the main tool of propaganda in a nation where literacy rates were still low.
    Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third Internationale ]]>     2017-09-05 22:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952654     Hamish https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952763 Modernization and electrification

    - Bolshevik policies were based on a Utopian vision
    - revolution was considered as a forward march towards economic, political, social and cultural improvement.
    - Revolution changed from being a struggle for survival to the search for a better life.
    - "electricity will take the place of god. Let the peasant pray to electricity" - Lenin 1918]]>     2017-09-05 22:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952763     Daily Life https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952811 angus
    -Under the Bolshevik regime almost all aspects of everyday life practices were altered to model the new soviet rituals and beliefs. 
    -The Bolsheviks made changes to everyday life that mimic the conditions of the novel 1984
    -Individuality was attempted to be removed by giving everyone a universal grouping "comrade" which also removes the classic human interaction associated with names ect
    -Changes to the Russian literature and language were made to decrease the opportunities in which people could question the leadership of the Bolsheviks. They wanted "speech efficiency" by creating short expressions and acronyms
    -Another change to daily life that was considered by the Bolsheviks was to remove any personalised clothing and replace it with a universal kit (made from paper) that would remove the peoples individuality and promote the party's lifestyle.]]>     2017-09-05 22:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184952811     Artistic development https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184954016 trotskyiana- 1922
    ]]>     2017-09-05 23:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184954016     Education and Literacy https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184954187 mid 1920s- 51% of Russian's could read and write compared to the 23% in 1900. 
    Education Authorities stated "teacher must be an organiser, an assistant, an instructor and above all an older comrade, but not a superior officer" 
    The growing education in soldiers inspired revolutionary enthusiasm. ]]>     2017-09-05 23:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/geislerd/5tfr79c3pvqg/wish/184954187