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Wide is My Motherland Soviet Imperial Space Construc8on

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Wide  is  My  Motherland  

Soviet  Imperial  Space  Construc8on    

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Grigorii  Aleksandrov  1903-­‐1986  co-­‐director  of  Sergei  Eisenstein  screenwriter  actor  director  the  head  of  Mosfil’m  

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I  am  lighthearted  Jolly  Fellows,  1934  

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Wide  is  My  Motherland  The  Circus,  1936  

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Jolly  Fellows,  1934    

A  shepherd  Kos8a  travels  to  Moscow  to  become  famous.  Aniuta  falls  in  love  with  Kos8a  and  helps  him  in  Moscow  to  make  a  performance  in  the  Bolshoi  Theater  

The  Circus,  1936    In  the  1930s,  an  American  actress,  who  has  an  Afro-­‐American  child    escapes  from  the  US  to  the  USSR.  In  Moscow,  she  makes  a  performance  and  decides  to  stays  in  the  USSR  because  this  country  is  non  discriminatory.  Her  friend-­‐lover  teaches  her  new  values  and  helps  her  to  stay  

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music:  Isaak  Dunaevsky    words:  Vasily  Lebedev-­‐Kumach    

from  horizontal  to  ver8cal  structures  I  am  lighthearted  Песня  веселых  ребят  everyday  vocabulary  simple  melody  horizontal  camera  movements  microspaces  of  everyday  life  

Wide  is  My  Motherland  Песня  о  Родине  high  register  of  Russian  sophis8cated  melody  ver8cal  camera  movements  ideologically  important  places  

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From  Eccentricity  to  Imperial  Values  

Jolly  Fellows,  1934  •  eccentricity  •  classless  society  •  demo8c  characters  in  the  

focus  •  everyday  language  •  jokes  •  dance  •  decentered  and  dynamic  

space  •  camera  as  an  instrument  of  

an  anthropologic  research  

The  Circus,  1936  •  poli8cal  ideas  •  class  society:  proletariat  on  

the  top  •  higher  classes  in  the  focus  •  elevated  register  of  Russian  

language  •  triumphant  style  •  sta8c  and  centered  on  

Moscow  space  •  camera  as  an  instrument  of  

discipline  and  control    

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aerial  shot  controls,  maps,  frames  and  orders    

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Imperial  Space  Structures  

•  center-­‐metropole  (SPb=>Moscow)          vs.  heartland  and  borders  •  long  and  blurred  borders  

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Imperial  Space  Structures  

•  center-­‐metropole  (SPb=>Moscow)          vs.  heartland  and  borders  •  long  and  blurred  borders  =>  extension  of  power  from  the  center–metropole  out  =>  appropria8on  of  the  territory  

•  country  vs.  territory    

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The  Russian  Empire  was  the  largest  in  space  nd  the  most  durable  in  8me  of  all  historical  emires,  covering  65  million  square  kilometers-­‐years  for  Muskovy/Russia/Soviet  Union  versus  45  million  for  the  Bri8sh  Empire  and  30  million  for  the  Roman  Empire    

Rein  Taagepera    An  Overview    of    the  Growth  of    

the  Russian  Empire  

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Aleksandr  Etkind.    Internal  Coloniza?on  

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Territory  =  country  minus  people    The  state  controls  the  territory  and  does  not  need  people  in  a  valuable  recourse-­‐based  economy.    The  state  is  the  people,  who  controls  the  valuable  recourse.      

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1960-­‐70s  

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1980s  

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2013  

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Etkind,  Aleksandr.  Internal  Coloniza?on:  Russia’s  Imperial  Experience.  Cambridge:  Polity,  2011.  

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Paperny,  Vladimir.  Architecture  in  the  Age  of  Stalin:  Culture  Two.  Cambridge:  Cambridge  University  Press,  2002.  

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Clark,  Katerina.  Moscow,  the  Fourth  Rome:  Stalinism,  Cosmopolitanism,  and  the  Evolu?on  of  Soviet  Culture,  1931-­‐1941.  Cambridge:  Harvard  University  Press,  2011.  

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Widdis,  Emma.  Visions  of  a  New  Land.  New  Heaven,  London:  Yale  University  Press,  2003.