The Golden Sixties

1
The Golden Sixties

• Late thaw but no summer coming

2
Khruchcov thaw fading

• No solution to basic problems of economy
• No solution to the cold war
• Ideas of democracy failed after the massacre in
  Novocherkassk, 1962
• Khruchcov eliminated in 1964
• Brezhnev finally freezes the thaw
• The Prague Spring in 1968
• Conservatives won the game after

3
20th anniversaries of the Soviet Baltic Republics

• Repressions decreasing
• Relative rise of life standard
• Acceptance of the Soviet power
• More national members in the Party, esp. In
  Lithuania
• In Estonia, the Communist Youth Party making
  efforts to reorganise the Party from inside

4
Architecture

• rationalism
• panel houses
• serial projects
• organic architecture
• folk style also in interiors
• cornice architecture
• merging buildings to landscape

5
Education

• production training implemented and
• soon terminated
• Serial projects for school buildings
• advanced language studies in special classes
• Estonian attempt to get western school uniform
• the attempt failed

6
Literature

• The Casset Generation in Estonia
• Paul-Eerik Rummo the Musketeer
• Jaan Kaplinski the intellectual
• Arvo Valton the industrial absurdist
• Curious cases. Arvi Siig, acronymic poem
• Sigitas Geda naitonalist sovietism?
• Mykolas Sluckis, consciousness in prose
• Kazys Saja, anti-dictator attitude

7
Art

• Geometrical form, strong border lines,
  strong-strike painting
• Vitrage art allowed in Lithuania
• Monumental sculptures on the red topics
• Abstract style as half- or all-underground
• Applied art raw materials, national look

8
Music

• Arvo Pärt, Estonia
• Perpetuum Mobile, 1963
• Collage sur B-A-C-H (1964)
• Credo, 1968

9
Popular music

• Edita Pyekha, the Soviet Siren
• The Marino Marini Orchestra visiting the USSR,
  also Baltic republics
• Crazy turn to Italian music
• Bossa nova and calypso
• Twist forbidden together with rocknroll
• Raimonds Pauls, a perspective newcomer

10
Theatre

• Lithuanian theatre advancing
• Kazys Saja, short plays
• The Maniac, 1966
• Paul-Eerik Rummo,
• The Cindrerella Game, 1968
• Panevezys Drama theatre,
• Juozas Miltinis
• Maia Plissetskaya performing in Vilnius

11
Film

• Italian neorealism introduced
• Italian film stars worshipped
• Baltic actors in the roles of the fascists on
  the Soviet screen
• Grigori Kozintsev
• Hamlet, 1964, filmed in Estonia, Elza Radzina
  as Gertrude
• King Lear, 1970, Jüri Järvet as Lear, Elza
  radzina as Regan, Donatas Banionis as Albany

12
Film (cont.)

• Vytautas alakevicius, Lithuania
• Chronicle of a Day, 1963
• Nobody Wanted to Die, 1965
• Donatas Banionis, performing also in Soviet
  Russian films adn in the films abroad (Goya of
  DEFA, 1971)
• Bruno Oja, leaving the USSR and banned

13
Film (cont.)

• More Baltic cooperation in Tallinfilm studio
• Madness by Kaljo Kiisk, 1966, based on Lithuanian
  script, many Lithuanians attending
• The Last Relic by Grigori Kromonov, 1969
• The heroine performed by Ingrida Andrina, Latvia

14
Sport

• 1960 Olympic Games in Rome
• Elvira Ozolina, URRS/Latvia, javelin
• four Latvians in the silver medal basketball team
  of the USSR
• Dinamo Riga decline in ice hockey
• Ants Antson won gold medal in speed skating in
  Winter Olympics, Innsbruck, 1964

15
Olympic Games in Mexico City

• 1968
• hard climate of the high mountain area
• gold medals for the Baltic sportsmen
• Danas Pozniakas, USSR/Lithuania, boxing
• Janis Lusis, USSR/Latvia, javelin
• Jaan Talts, USSR/Estonia, lifting

16
Contacts with other Soviets

• Migration continuing and increasing
• Internal tourism advanced
• The Baltic Republics popular in the USSR
• Crimea popular in the Batltic Republics
• Deficit of goods causing conflicts between the
  tourists and the local people
• Language problems increasing, esp. in Latvia

17
Jokes and anecdotes

• Khruchcov silly but good-willing
• Khruchcov visiting a kolkhoz
• Augusts Voss, the Party leader in Latvia
• Russians on the Moon
• Americans on the Moon
• Rigas Balsams
• Vana Tallinn