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Russian Studies 210
Final Exam: Thaw
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History
Undergraduate 2
12/12/2011

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Term
Dates
Definition
1953-1964
Term
[image]
Definition
Palace of Congresses
-Within the Kremlin Walls
-International style, simple no ornamentation
-Geometric shapes focus on vertical, not "floating podium"
Term
[image]
Definition
Builders of the Bratsk
-Popkov, 1960
-Socialist Realism
-Bratsk is river where world's largest dam is built
Term
"Clear Skies"
Definition
Film.
-Pilot in trouble
-Can't get into party
-Party is forgiving, let him in
-Happy ending
-Socialist Realism
Term
"On Guard for Peace"
Definition
Music.
-Prokofiev
-Second version of this song written formally during Stalin
Term
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
Definition
Literature.
-Solzhenitsyn
Term
"I am Goya"
Definition
Literature.
-Voznesenski
-Goya is Spanish painter who painted horrors of war.
-Repetitive sounds
-In Russian, all words rhyme in this piece
-Fed up w/ poor conditions of Russia
Term
"In the Hospital"
Definition
Literature.
-Grim outlook of hospital care
-Depressing
Term
"Midnight Trolleybus"
Definition
Literature.
-Okudozhava
-Poem says it's okay to be depressed
-Narrator is alone trying to heal
-Not building communism, or anything, just depressed.
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