The Roaring ’20s in Russia: Art, Design and Architecture
15 February 2018, 22 March 2018 & 3 May 2018
We are pleased to collaborate with GRAD to host a series of three fascinating lectures on Soviet film, fashion and architecture in the 1920s. The era of the New Economic Policy (NEP), from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921 to the onslaught of collectivization and rapid industrialization in 1929, was a time of transition from what tsarist Russia had been to what Soviet Russia would become. It was a short period when Russians were given some “breathing space”, when starvation and shortages were replaced by a free market economy and a jazz age splashed onto the streets of the Russian cities.
15 February 2018: Professor Ian Christie, Making the movies Soviet: New direction in 1920’s Russian film
22 March 2018: Professor Christina Lodder, New Buildings for a New Society
3 May 2018: Dr Djurdja Bartlett, Soviet Fashion – Fusion of Socialism and Art Deco
Lectures commence at 7pm.
