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Class No. 6: Revolutionary Transformations: Women, Gender, and the Party-State
Class No. 8: Culture Wars:  Art and Revolution
 

Revolutionary Transformations: Women, Gender, and the Party-State

Pre-Revolutionary period:

  1. Nikolai Pimonenko, “Haymaking” (1907)
  2. Zinaida Serebriakova, “Peasants” (1914)
  3. Nikolai Kasatkin, “The Spinner” (1904)
  4. Nikolai Kasatkin, “Woman Miner” (1894)
  5. Abram Arkhipov, “Laundresses” (c. 1900)
  6. Mikhail Nesterov, “The Taking of the Veil” (1898)
  7. Nikolai Iaroshenko, “Girl Student” (1883)
  8. Mikhail Nesterov, “Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter” (1906)
  9. Valentin Serov, “Portrait of Ida Rubinstein” (1910)
  10. Valentin Serov, “ Portrait of [Countess] O. Orlova” (1911)

From the Revolution through the end of the NEP:

  1. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “The Year 1918 in Petrograd” (1920)
  2. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, “Portrait of Anna Akhmatova” (1922)
  3. Abram Arkhipov, “Peasant Girl with a Pitcher” (1927)
  4. Evgenii Katzman, “The Kaliazin Lace-Makers” (1928)
  5. Viktoriia Belakovskaia, “A Steel Horse on the Fields of Ukraine” (1927)
  6. Konstantin Iuon, “Young People of the Moscow Suburbs” (1926)
  7. Aleksandr Samokhvalov, “Young Woman Worker” (1928)
  8. Aleksandr Deineka, “Textile Workers” (1927)
  9. Boris Ioganson, “On the Way to the Rabfak [Workers’ Factory School]” (1928)
  10. Georgii Riazhskii, “The Chairwoman” (1928)

Posters,from the Revolution through the end of the NEP:

  1. Adolf Strakhov, “Women’s emancipation day” (1920)
  2. Nikolai Kogout, “By force of arms we have smashed the enemy, with our labor we will get bread.  Down to work, Comrades!” (1921)
  3. Vladimir Lebedev, “Demonstration” (1920?)
  4. Vladimir Lebedev, “Earth” (1918)
  5. Elizaveta Kruglikova, “Women, learn to read! Hey, Mama, if you can read, teach me!” (1923)
  6. Aleksandr Deineka, “A Slave of God. A Candidate for the Party” (1925)

1930s:

  1. David Shterenberg, “Brigade During a Break” (1931)
  2. Konstantin Iuon, “Youth. Laughter” (1930)
  3. Aleksandr Deineka, “Mother” (1932)
  4. Serafima Riangina, “Ever Higher and Higher” (1934)
  5. Aleksandr Samokhvalov, “Woman in a Football Jersey” (1932)
  6. Aleksandr Samokhvalov, “In the Stadium” (1934-1935)
  7. V. G. Vasilev, “The Commander’s Family” (1938)
  8. Kliment Redko, “Motherhood” (1937)
  9. Mikhail Nesterov, “Portrait of the Sculptress Vera Mukhina” (1940)
  10. Iurii Pimenov, “New Moscow” (1937)
  11. Grigorii Shegal, “Leader, Teacher, and Friend” (1937)
  12. Aleksandr Samokhvalov, “Delegates” (1939)

 

Class No. 8: Culture Wars:  Art and Revolution

Pre-Revolutionary, Realism:

  1. Nikolai Kuznetsov, “Inspecting His Estate” (1879)
  2. Ivan Kramskoi, “Mina Moiseev” (1882)
  3. Nikolai Orlov, “Tax-Collecting” (1895)
  4. Ilia Repin, “The Volga Boatmen” (1870-1873)
  5. Konstantin Savitsky, “Repair Work on the Railway” (1874)
  6. Nikolai Kasatkin, “Poor People Collecting Coal in an Abandoned Pit” (1894)
  7. Vladimir Makovsky, “A Doss-House” (1889)
  8. Abram Arkhipov, “Laundresses” (c. 1900)
  9. Ilia Repin, “They Did Not Expect Him” (1884-1888)
  10. Vasilii Perov, “A Meal in the Monastery” (1865-1876)

Pre-Revolutionary, Avant-Garde:

  1. Natalia Goncharova, “Mowers” (1907-1908)
  2. Natalia Goncharova, “Airplane over a Train” (1913)
  3. Aleksandra Exter, “City” (1913)
  4. Natan Altman, “Portrait of Anna Akhmatova” (1915)
  5. Valentin Serov, “Portrait of Ida Rubinstein” (1910)
  6. Kazimir Malevich, “Red Square (Painterly Realism: Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions” (1915)
  7. Kazimir Malevich, “Suprematism: Non-Objective Composition” (1916)
  8. Ivan Puni, “Window Washing” (1915)
  9. Nadezhda Udaltsova, “Kitchen” (1915)
  10. Olga Rozanova, “Room” (1915)

From the Revolution through the end of the NEP, realist:

  1. Aleksandr Apsit (Petrov), “Forward, For Defense of the Urals!” (1919)
  2. Aleksandr Moravov, “Meeting of a Committee of Poor Peasants” (1920)
  3. Efim Cheptsov, “Meeting of a Village Party Cell” (1924)
  4. Efim Cheptsov, “Marking Cooperative Day in a Village” (1926)
  5. Boris Kustodiev, “Festivities Marking the Opening of the Second Congress of the Comintern in Uritsky (Palace) Square in Petrograd” (1921)
  6. Sergei Luppov, “Sport Games at a Stadium” (1927)

From the Revolution through the end of the NEP,Avant-Garde:

  1. Vladimir Lebedev, “The Red Army and Fleet in Defense of the Frontiers of Russia” (1920)
  2. Lazar (El) Lissitzky, “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge!” (1920)
  3. Pavel Filonov, “Petrograd Proletariat Formula” (1920-1921)
  4. Varvara Stepanova, “Sketch for Study the Old, but Create the New” (c. 1919)
  5. Varvara Stepanova, “Figure” (1921)
  6. Natan Altman, “Russia: Work” (1921)
  7. Kliment Redko, “Factory” (1922)
  8. Kliment Redko, “Uprising” (1924-1925)
  9. Boris Ender, “In Peace” (1927)
  10. Aleksandr Deineka, “Before the Descent into the Mines” (1925)
  11. Aleksandr Tyshler, “Guliai-Pole (Makhno’s Gang)” (1927) [Influenced by Anarchist ideas, Nestor Makhno led an independent armed group in southern Ukraine during the Civil War and briefly managed to establish a separate soviet state there.]
  12. Iurii Pimenov, “Study for poster New Workers’ Settlement: We Are Building” (1929)
  13. Kazimir Malevich, “Black Square” (1929)
  14. Kazimir Malevich, “Girls in a Field” (1928-1930)

1930s:

  1. Kazimir Malevich, “Self-Portrait” (1933)
  2. Iurii Pimenov, “Milk Factory” (1930)
  3. Aleksandr Deineka, Poster: “Work, build, and don’t complain!  The path to a new life has been shown to us.  You may not be an athlete, but physical training is obligatory.” (1933)
  4. Vasilii Rozhdestvenskii, “Rolling Shop at the ‘Sickle and Hammer’ Factory” (1930)
  5. Nikolai Kotov, “Capital Construction” (1930s)
  6. Mitrofan Grekov, “The Buglers of the First Cavalry” (1934)
  7. Arkadii Rylov, “Lenin at Razliv” (1934)
  8. Aleksandr Samokhvalov, “S. M. Kirov Greets a Parade of Athletes” (1935)
  9. Arkadii Plastov, “Collective Farm Holiday” (1937)
  10. Vasilii Iakovlev, “Gold Miners Write a Letter to the Creator of the Great Constitution” (1937)
  11. Ilia Lukomsky, “Meeting of the Factory Party Committee” (1937)
  12. Vasilii Efanov, “Meeting of Artists of the K. S. Stanislavskii Theater with Students of the N. E. Zhukovskii Military-Aviation Academy” (1938)
  13. Isaak Brodskii, “Portrait of I. V. Stalin” (1937)