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Week Twelve

--Early Twentieth Century Music and Dance

Links:

Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929)

Serge Grigoriev

Anna Pavlova (1881-1931)

Ballet Russes pictures

Class notes on the Ballets Russes

Mikhail Fokine (1880-1942)

The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

Alexander Scriabin

Sergey Rachmaninov

Sergey Prokofiev

Dmitri Shostakovich

Optional:

The Prokofiev Page

More on Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring on Youtube

"Music under Soviet Rule"

More on Shostakovich  (A virtual sea of links.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


--Early Twentieth Century Drama and Cinema

Links:

The Moscow Arts Theater in Brief

Konstantin Stanislavksy

The Stanislavsky Method

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Sergei Eisenstein

Optional:

On biomechanics

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--The Age of Stalin

Links:

Stalin Biography

Stalin Biography that is favorable to Stalin

Britannica's entries on Josef Stalin.  You have to go to each link from this page.  Parts of the articles are inaccessible if you do not register for a free trial.  The links on Britannica's page will not work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit (When exploring this site, you should make sure to visit all of the links listed below and whatever else interests you.  Read the documents that are linked to each of the required links.)

Required Links for the Soviet Archives Exhibit:

2002 Poll on Stalin

Optional:

Ukrainian Famine

More on the Ukrainian Famine

Stalin vs. Hitler (A Russian Web Comic)

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