Cultural Revolution in the Soviet Union

- Woman, learn to read and write! - Oh, Mother! If you were literate, you could help me! A poster by Elizaveta Kruglikova advocating female literacy. 1923

The cultural revolution was a set of activities carried out in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union, aimed at a radical restructuring of the cultural and ideological life of society. The goal was to form a new type of culture as part of the building of a socialist society,[1][2] including an increase in the proportion of people from proletarian classes in the social composition of the intelligentsia.[3]

The cultural revolution in the Soviet Union as a focused program for the transformation of national culture in practice often stalled and was massively implemented only during the first five-year plans.[4] As a result, in modern historiography there is a traditional, but contested, correlation of the cultural revolution in the Soviet Union only with the 1928–1931 period.[5][6] The cultural revolution in the 1930s was understood as part of a major transformation of society and the national economy, along with industrialization and collectivization.[7] Also, in the course of the cultural revolution, the organization of scientific activity in the Soviet Union underwent considerable restructuring and reorganization.[8][9]

  1. ^ Cultural Revolution // Great Russian Encyclopedia – Volume 16 – Moscow, 2010
  2. ^ Yuri Nikiforov (2006). Russia: Illustrated Encyclopedia. Moscow: OLMA-Press Education. pp. 262, 288. ISBN 5-94849-897-2.
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  4. ^ Sheila Fitzpatrick (1984). Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931. United States: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20337-6. culture revolution ussr.
  5. ^ Michael David‐Fox. What Is Cultural Revolution? The Russian Review. Volume 58, Issue 2, pages 181—201, April 1999
  6. ^ Sheila Fitzpatrick. Cultural Revolution Revisited The Russian Review. Volume 58, Issue 2, pages 202—209, April 1999
  7. ^ Alexey Derevyanko, Natalia Shabelnikova (2011). History of Russia: Study Guide. Moscow: Prospekt. pp. 531–532. ISBN 978-5-392-01829-1.
  8. ^ Sergey Oldenburg. Tasks of the Section of Scientists in the Cultural Revolution // Scientist. 1928. № 5/6
  9. ^ Cultural Revolution and Scientists. Digest of Articles / Edited by Ivan Luppol — Moscow: Educator, 1928