#soviet futurism

[blackbird5154]

Anyone who likes Meliora's aesthetic and philosophy should watch "The Master and Margarita" 2024 😏

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VICTORY OVER THE SUN

A collaborative effort of many Left-Futurist artists, the play "Victory Over the Sun" premiered in 1913 in St. Petersburg. Suprematist pioneer Kazimir Malevich designed costumes and sets, which were mostly cubist designs, per that era of the Russian avant-garde. Futurist artist Eli Lissitzky praised the play a decade later as a celebration of human technological development.

Audiences hated the play so fucking much they rioted.

Out of the many wacky aspects of the play, much of the text was written in "zaum," or "trans-rational," a purposefully nonsensical dialect meant to deconstruct the logic of language.

(Pictured above: a poster by Eli Lissitzky promoting the play, with text reading "all is well that begins well and has not ended" in Russian)

[phantasmagloria]

Storm Stereo #86: Sound of the Future

In this episode, we explore sound experimentation among the Russian Avant Garde of the early 20th century.

Instructive illustration from Arseny Avraamov’s ground-breaking socialist work, Symphony of Sirens (1922) In this episode, we explore sound experimentation among the Russian Avant Garde of the early 20th century. A massive chapter in sound history unto itself, with numerous books, research papers, articles and archives recovered already, we listen to some of my favourite works from this early…

[maximdorky]

Soviet Futurism is basically just the government paying for what's functionally the equivalent of those airbrushed van murals with, like, busty barbarian chicks and wizard battles and dragons and shit like that. It only looks cool because you don't have to see it everywhere all the time.

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

'Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future' a.k.a. 'Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession' (1973), dir. Leonid Gaidai

[sovietpostcards]

Pages from B. Lyapunov's "Discovering the World" (1956)

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ℌ𝔞𝔧𝔦𝔪𝔢 𝔖𝔬𝔯𝔞𝔶𝔞𝔪𝔞

[ineffablecrisp]

Soviet!Ice Headcanons

I've decided to do a little follow up, hope you enjoy!

Born as Toma Efimovich Kazansky in Odessa, Ukraine

His favorite food is his babushka's borscht and likes to drink more kvass than he should on a daily basis

He and his family left the Soviet Union in 1973, when he was 14 years old

Settled in New York, since it has a large Jewish population

Because of the Soviet Union's disapproval of religions (especially Judaism) he wasn't able to have a proper Bar Mitzvah, so his family quickly joined a shul so he could have one

Being Jewish in America was a strange experience for him- everyone knew how to read the funny looking words in the siddur but he couldn't, since he never learned Hebrew before coming to America. Even amongst Jews he still felt like he didn't fit in because of his background

And also being a Soviet immigrant made him stick out like a sore thumb among his classmates, who were suspicious of the new kid with the funny accent and last name. Over time, he learned how to speak English without an accent so he wouldn't be bullied

Many people have called him slurs. Over time, he figured it's best not to show any emotion. This is one of the reasons why his callsign became Iceman

The other one being that because he speaks Russian, people assume him to be incredibly stoic and completely void of any emotions

Few people know he speaks Russian. Only Slider does, and later, Maverick. Most people who meet him immediately notice the Jewish last name but don't realize right away that he speaks a different language

Preferred to hide his Jewish practices from pretty much everybody. He still observed, but only in private. The only two people he truly felt comfortable enough to open up about this were Slider and Maverick

(not so much Soviet but more Jewish, he and Mav get married under a chuppah much later in the future)

[comradeclevername]

Poyekhali

More Tumblr banners made by colour shifting Soviet Sci-Fi art. Please enjoy.

[flowercrowngods]

idk i just think that thinking about the future shouldn’t come with such deep-seated feelings of petrification and apprehension

[ddagent]

Read the new iac 66 fic as distraction from a migraine, will be back with a comment later, but need to know if the mentioned tipsy kiss is on the menu? Would love to order that right away!!

Margo/Sergei | Canon Divergence | FR18 | 2,492 words     Margo finally plays for Sergei at the '69 IAC. Without their mentors, the two feel free to get closer than ever before. Part of the IAC '66 verse; sequel to ’Red Moon’. I hope your migraine has improved and that you're enjoying the IAC '66 verse! Happy reading!

“To you, Margo. The first woman in Mission Control. Congratulations.”

Margo Madison, cheeks warm from Sergei’s undivided attention, raised her glass and clinked it against his. "Thank you, Sergei. And to you – I guess.” She paused, rolling her eyes at his overly smug grin. “Congratulations for putting Leonov on the moon.”

“And Belikova.” Sergei took a sip of his drink. “Which I believe means I am owed two songs.”

She brandished the stirrer of her drink in his direction. “We only wagered on one astronaut. So, you only get one congratulations. And one song.”

Sergei laughed. It was easy and light in the late evening air. “Fine. I will take it.”

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[olanzapiba]

soviet red by andrea tošić

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Käthe Kollwitz, "Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht"

Not Soviet nor Futurist, I just get sad about the German Revolution nearly everyday. The German Revolution and its failure is my Roman Empire

Might post more Kollwitz maybe idk

[picsfromsiberiangirl]

Future Has Passed.

[rabemar]

Персонажи из советского научно-фантастического фильма "Планета Бурь" ("Planet of Storms")

Masha Ivanova

Ivan Shcherba

Ilya Vershinin

Roman Bobrov

Alyosha

Allan Kern

Robot John

[aswegoalong72]

worldbuilding will have you looking up things such as “racism in the Soviet Union” which then leads to you almost entirely revising how you’re going to go about the Soviet power struggle in the 70s & looking into the rehabilitation of Khrushchev and Lenin-era policies