Midterm Cultural Review Assignment
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Primary Sources
For this assignment, you should choose one of the following primary sources to analyze. You may also choose a source of your own, but you must get my approval before you begin!
Literature
Fyodor Gladkov, Cement
*If you are feeling ambitious, you may read a longer version here:
Mikhail Zoshchenko, Adventures of a Monkey
Films
Volga-Volga, dir. Grigorii Aleksandrov
Three Songs about Lenin, dir. Dziga Vertov
Ivan the Terrible, Part I, dir. Sergei Eisenstein
The Fall of Berlin, dir. Mikhail Chiaureli (part 1 and part 2)
Visual Art
Please see the slideshow here.
Musical Works
Nikolai Myaskovsky, Symphony no. 12 (“The Collective Farm”)
Fikret Amirov, Shur (Symphonic Mugam) [*Track one only!]
Isaak Dunaevsky and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, “March of the Jolly Fellows” [Watch from the beginning through 7:30]
Dmitrii Shostakovich, Symphony no. 7 (Fourth Movement)
Sergei Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé Suite [Tracks 1-5 only]