{"id":967,"date":"2020-04-10T04:08:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:25:57","slug":"russias-revolutionary-war-on-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/ehill\/russias-revolutionary-war-on-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Revolutionary War on Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second poem of Alexander Blok’s The Twelve<\/em> was intensely chilling in the way it illustrated Russia’s revolutionary War with Religion. The repetition of “down with the cross” was a line which seems rather basic in the English Language (which is why I wish I could absorb the original Russian) but conveys an brilliant image with some strong symbolic meaning. The poem actually ties the old Russia in with religion, or at the very least, it illustrates how the revolutionaries tied old Russia with religion. It tells the story of how the revolutionary’s nail mother Russia to the cross before chopping it down.<\/p>\n

What seemed a bit less clear upon first reading this poem (as well as the other twelve) was the profound sense of irony which was being injected into the narratives. There relatively very little direct criticism of the revolution itself, outside of painting pictures of its extremities. The narration of the poem almost seems to mockingly accept the anti religious and generally destructive tenants of the revolution, and it does so seemingly with a sort of self-aware blindness. The language is at times downright feverish in its narration of revolutionary fervor. In a sense, without questioning the revolution, it transforms it into a sort of perverse religion in and of itself. Poetry is one of the few things capable of such a feat.<\/p>\n

*****I did not finish the movie before midnight, so I will be adding a second section to this journal once I do.*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second poem of Alexander Blok’s The Twelve was intensely chilling in the way it illustrated Russia’s revolutionary War with Religion. The repetition of “down with the cross” was a line which seems rather basic in the English Language (which is why I wish I could absorb the original Russian) but conveys an brilliant image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-9-the-silver-age-and-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/russian-2240-spring-2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}