Editing Russian Revolution (section)

==Cultural portrayal==
=== Literature ===
* ''[[The Twelve (poem)|The Twelve]]'' (1918) by the [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolist]] poet [[Aleksandr Blok]] and ''[[Mystery-Bouffe]]'' (1918) and ''[[150 000 000]]'' by the [[Futurism (literature)|Futurist]] poet [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]] were among the first poetic responses to the Revolution.
* ''[[The White Guard]]'' by [[Mikhail Bulgakov]] (1925), partially autobiographical novel, portraying the life of one family torn apart by uncertainty of the Civil War times; his short novel ''[[Heart of a Dog]]'' (1925) has been interpreted as a satirical allegory of the Revolution.
* ''[[The Life of Klim Samgin]]'' (1927–1936) by [[Maxim Gorky]], a novel with a controversial reputation sometimes described as an example of Modernist literature, portrays the decline of Russian ''[[intelligentsia]]'' from the early 1870s to the Revolution as seen by a middle class intellectual during the course of his life.
* ''[[Chevengur]]'' (1929) by [[Andrei Platonov]] depicts the Revolution and the Civil War in a grotesque way in a form of a Modernist parable,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Karetnyk |first=Bryan |date=8 December 2023 |title=Chevengur — Andrey Platonov's risky critique of early Stalinism |url=https://www.ft.com/content/dbff0cfa-3bb9-4f62-a7ff-6ceec13ebf7b |work=Financial Times}}</ref> as a struggle between the Utopia and the Dystopia that confounds the both, and as associated by the motifs of death and apocalypse.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehaZrlRY_YgC |title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature |date=1998 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-8849-6410-7}}</ref>
* [[Mikhail Sholokhov]]'s novel ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don|Quiet Flows the Don]]'' (1928–1940) describes the lives of [[Don Cossacks]] during the World War I, the Revolution, and the Civil War.
* [[George Orwell]]'s classic novella ''[[Animal Farm]]'' (1945) is an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. It describes the dictator [[Joseph Stalin]] as a big [[Berkshire pig|Berkshire boar]] named, "Napoleon". Trotsky is represented by a pig called Snowball who is a brilliant talker and makes magnificent speeches. However, Napoleon overthrows Snowball as Stalin overthrew Trotsky and Napoleon takes over the farm the animals live on. Napoleon becomes a tyrant and uses force and propaganda to oppress the animals, while culturally teaching them that they are free.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robert W. Menchhofer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhvjsczkdBIC&pg=PA1 |title=Animal Farm |date=1990 |publisher=Lorenz Educational Press |isbn=978-0-7877-8061-6 |pages=1–8}}</ref>
* ''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1957) by [[Boris Pasternak]] describes the fate of Russian ''intelligentsia''; the events take place between the Revolution of 1905 and World War II.
* ''[[The Red Wheel]]'' (1984–1991) by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]], a cycle of novels that describes the fall of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the Soviet Union.

===Film===
The Russian Revolution has been portrayed in or served as backdrop for many films. Among them, in order of release date:<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Devlin |first=Judith |date=2007 |title=Recreating 'History' on Film |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13688800701608403 |journal=Media History |volume=13 |issue=2–3 |pages=149–168 |doi=10.1080/13688800701608403}}</ref>

* ''[[The End of Saint Petersburg]]''. 1927. Directed by [[Vsevolod Pudovkin]] and [[Mikhail Doller]], [[USSR]]
* ''[[October: Ten Days That Shook the World]]''. 1927. Directed by [[Sergei Eisenstein]] and [[Grigori Aleksandrov]]. Soviet Union. Black and qhite. Silent.
* ''[[Scarlet Dawn]]'', a 1932 [[Pre-Code Hollywood|Pre-Code American]] romantic drama starring [[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.]] and [[Nancy Carroll]] caught up in the fallout of the Russian Revolution.
* ''[[Knight Without Armour]]''. 1937. A British historical drama starring [[Marlene Dietrich]] and [[Robert Donat]], with Dietrich as an imperiled aristocrat on the eve of the Russian Revolution.
* ''[[Lenin in 1918]]''. 1939. Directed by [[Mikhail Romm]], E. Aron, and I. Simkov. Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
* ''[[Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)|Doctor Zhivago]]''. 1965. A drama-romance-war film directed by [[David Lean]], filmed in Europe with a largely European cast, loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by [[Boris Pasternak]].
* ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]''. 1981. Directed by [[Warren Beatty]], it is based on the book ''[[Ten Days that Shook the World]]''.
* ''[[Anastasia (1997 film)|Anastasia]]''. 1997. An American animated feature, directed by [[Don Bluth]] and [[Gary Goldman]].