A Weapon in the Battle for Socialism?

Autor: Susan N. Smith
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Museum History Journal. 3:189-208
ISSN: 1936-9824
1936-9816
DOI: 10.1179/mhj.2010.3.2.189
Popis: In the wake of the Russian revolution of October 1917, the Bolsheviks began to expropriate property from the upper classes, institutions, and churches, and transfer much of it to local museums. Over the course of the 1920s, museums would increasingly be pressured not only to foment class war and attack religion, but also to encourage regional economic development. It was the promotion of a worldview based on dialectical materialism in the late 1920s and 1930s, however, that would lead to one of the most dramatic shifts in museum practice, away from disciplinary displays based on type of object and material that were favored in the pre-revolutionary years and immediately after the revolution, to the presentation of a historical narrative blending written and material culture of all types. The exhibits would thus come to reflect and participate in class war, undergo and promote a cultural revolution, and become part of and advance socialist construction.
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