Sovetskaia Kul’tura Digital Archive (DA-SK)   

• Product Details

  Product #

  2147388D

  Country of Publication

  Russia 

  Language

  Russian 

  Publisher

  East View Information Services  

  Platform

  Universal Database (UDB) 

  Subject

  Literature

  Subject

  Performing Arts / Music / Cinema

   

• Description

  Sovetskaia Kul’tura (Soviet Culture) is an important Soviet/Russian weekly newspaper currently published under the title Kul’tura. The Sovetskaia Kul’tura Digital Archive (DA-SK) represents an indispensable source of information on the developing and ever changing attitudes towards arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies. Throughout the years, the newspaper articles reviewed major events in Soviet cultural life, in literature, theater, cinematography and arts. In the Soviet period it published critical diatribes against dissident writers Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Aksyonov and others, infamous articles condemning modern art exhibitions, chastising avant-guard composers and abstract painters. In modern Russia its reviews and event listings often focus on the cultural life of Moscow and regions, it is known for its topical commentaries on popular culture and politics.