Revolution in the Army Music

Lieutenant Golitsyn

Aleksandr Malinin. Song by M. Zvezdinskii

Description: This putatively White Guard song gained popularity in the late years of the Soviet Union, when its lyrical romanticism fed the nostalgia for a Russian long past. Although there is little evidence that it was actually White Guard song, many popular singers covered it after it became legal under Perestroika.

Fragrant White Acacia Flowers (1976)

Liudmila Senchina. Music: Veniamin Basner. Lyrics: Mikhail Matusovskii

Description: This popular song of pre-revolutionary years was used as an elegy to a dying society in the 1926 production of Bulgakov's Days of the Turbins, which portrayed the white-officer class with a great deal of sympathy.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth