Have been watching alot of video on TH-cam about The Cherry Orchard. Watched only half of it as of writing this comment because I wanted to take time out from it to say that this is by far the best video out there regarding this play. Thank you😄
Its so great to see Americans reading the stories our country's author wrote. Chekov was indeed a master of short stories. Everything is absolutely well delivered Thank you
@@DennisGJerzSHU thank u so much i dicovered your channel with this video i am studying American Culture and Literature actually i think your videos will be a huge help:")
@1:40 the provisional government was not the peasants, it was a mix of the old royalists (pro-war right-wingers) and some mensheviks (democratic socialists) and SR (socialist revolutionaries, a bourgeois party aligned with the bolsheviks and mensheviks). The workers with help from the soldiers deserting from the war front and some Cossacks who supported the bolsheviks did most of the overthrowing before October. Point is, for Chekov's backdrop, the Tsar and the rentier landed aristocracy was so badly loathed a total shambles of a coalition could take the aristocracy down even when right-wing proto-fascist nationalists tried to stop them.
Thank you. To help students understand the context of the play, the main ideas I wanted to get across were that an 1) uprising took the aristocracy down, and 2) the peasants didn't wind up in control. In my attempts to boil a complex issue down into a few bullet points, I -- who profess no expertise in Russian history -- didn't do the topic justice.
1:20 There is a mistake here. The Provisional government wasn't created by peasants. It consisted largely of rising capitalists and they didn't care about human rights.
Is it fair to say the peasants participated in that first rebellion in the expectation that they would gain their freedom? And that the second rebellion was not even remotely about their human rights? How would you briefly characterize the difference, so that my students can better understand the historical context?
@DGJerz Are you a History or Literature professor? Do you know which laws did the Communists make when they got the power in October 1917? Decree on Land made all the lands national property instead of nobility's property. Decree on Peace allowed all peasants come back home and not die in the bloody war. These decrees made Bolshevik government widely popular.
@@pushista9322 Literature professor, but not in any way a specialist in Chekhov or this time period. I'll put some time into learning more about this before the next time I teach a Chekhov work. Thanks for the feedback.
Have been watching alot of video on TH-cam about The Cherry Orchard. Watched only half of it as of writing this comment because I wanted to take time out from it to say that this is by far the best video out there regarding this play.
Thank you😄
I have had a problem with characters and names before I watched this video , thanks a lot❤❤
Great overview! So helpful and enjoyable to listen to
thank you SO SO MUCH . awesome video
Excellent and well delivered. So enjoyable to listen to.
Its so great to see Americans reading the stories our country's author wrote. Chekov was indeed a master of short stories. Everything is absolutely well delivered Thank you
It's interesting
I have an literature exam in 2 days and i havent read this yet but your video helped me a lot thank u😊
I think you should still read it! You can put on a TH-cam recording while you fold laundry or go for a walk.
@@DennisGJerzSHU thank u so much i dicovered your channel with this video i am studying American Culture and Literature actually i think your videos will be a huge help:")
Thank you ..this is a great help
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@1:40 the provisional government was not the peasants, it was a mix of the old royalists (pro-war right-wingers) and some mensheviks (democratic socialists) and SR (socialist revolutionaries, a bourgeois party aligned with the bolsheviks and mensheviks). The workers with help from the soldiers deserting from the war front and some Cossacks who supported the bolsheviks did most of the overthrowing before October. Point is, for Chekov's backdrop, the Tsar and the rentier landed aristocracy was so badly loathed a total shambles of a coalition could take the aristocracy down even when right-wing proto-fascist nationalists tried to stop them.
Thank you. To help students understand the context of the play, the main ideas I wanted to get across were that an 1) uprising took the aristocracy down, and 2) the peasants didn't wind up in control. In my attempts to boil a complex issue down into a few bullet points, I -- who profess no expertise in Russian history -- didn't do the topic justice.
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1:20 There is a mistake here. The Provisional government wasn't created by peasants. It consisted largely of rising capitalists and they didn't care about human rights.
Is it fair to say the peasants participated in that first rebellion in the expectation that they would gain their freedom? And that the second rebellion was not even remotely about their human rights? How would you briefly characterize the difference, so that my students can better understand the historical context?
@DGJerz Are you a History or Literature professor? Do you know which laws did the Communists make when they got the power in October 1917? Decree on Land made all the lands national property instead of nobility's property. Decree on Peace allowed all peasants come back home and not die in the bloody war. These decrees made Bolshevik government widely popular.
@@pushista9322 Literature professor, but not in any way a specialist in Chekhov or this time period. I'll put some time into learning more about this before the next time I teach a Chekhov work. Thanks for the feedback.
thank you sir
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