Is there a gap in the russian culture ? Between 1917 & 1990?

Due to the soviet period which exerted so much repression in every field, and in particular forbade thousands of writers, musicians, painters and WORKS etc - Was Stain the best reference to make those choices ? Don't you sometimes suffer of the limits of russian culture ? Don't you think russians shoul at last open their windows ?

I meant Stalin not Stain......lollllllllllllllllll

Absolutely no gap at all.
There were simply two types of culture - the official kind, the allowed one and the underground culture.
Vysotskii belonged to the underground culture, getting known through word of the mouth.
In the Soviet times culture flourished in the shape of cinema and songs. While most films had the obligatory ideology part to them, many of the films were fantastic. Modern Russian cinema is nothing compared to it. Films were touching, moving, mind-boggling, downright funny, subtle and dangerously truthful. Same goes for "children's" animated films.
And the songs... A saying was born in that time - "songs help us build and live". The whole country was singing and the songs had a dignity about them, which is so lacking in today's pop songs.
Great books were written, too. Although many of them became really known only afterwards.

So no - no gap in culture. It acquired new forms of expression and adapted to the censure. In fact, the actual gap is AFTER 1990 - when the country was gripped by chaos and people had no time for culture.

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Yeesh, you used the word "gap" as opposed to "vacuum," so I'd have to agree.

But, there were some noteworthy artists that still were active. Painter Elia Repin's (hey, I AM Ukrainian, lol) "Cossacks Writing A Letter..." makes me wanna fall on the floor laughing everytime I see it. I'm sure others will bring up prominent writers. They even had a pop icon who rivaled Elvis: Visssotsky. If you think about it, he topped Elvis because the guy had soul, tortuerd as it was.

As to Stalin, I think the thing he'd be best for is making flowers grow.

LOL!
I think Lillie and Springie need to get their "bluster-stories" straight.

there are gaps in every culture.

American pop culture is dominated by MTV. So you see these little sub-cultures everywhere. Same in Russia in those times. Culture existed, it was just on a more personal level--like within the family, villages, etc. They really redefined culture during this period, making it go from literary to more traditional.
Don't I sometimes suffer of the limits of Russian culture? What? Was this question written in 1960s? Russian culture is booming right now. I don't know what you're talking about.

Despite such repression (certainly in content) Some of my favourite films and books were written during that period.