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James von Geldern — новинки
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Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 James von Geldern
ISBN: 978-1122723473, 1122723474 Год издания: 1993 Издательство: University of California Press In the early years of the USSR, socialist festivals—events entailing enormous expense and the deployment of thousands of people—were inaugurated by the Bolsheviks. Avant-garde canvases decorated the streets, workers marched, and elaborate mass spectacles were staged. Why, with a civil war raging and an economy in ruins, did the regime sponsor such spectacles?