After reading We Grow Out of Iron and seeing Chapaev as well as clips from various movies in class, I have come to realize that the correlation between the two artforms in the aspect that they both the directions of “industrialization” themselves.  They both changed with the times and grew to reflect the ways of the working class people.

The literature, We Grow Out of Iron, took a more literal approach in the sense that it described the worker as becoming one with the machinery and with the metal itself. The iron is becoming one with the worker and the worker is in turn becoming one with the factory system.  In a way it was used to show how that Russia was finally becoming an industrial country but it also hinted at the fact that the workers were exploited in factories with terrible conditions and over crowding, thus they became one with the machines, one with the metal they worked.

The music of the time began to resemble the sounds of the factor.  With banging, sawing, hammering and other noises. These noises became popular soundtracks to movies depicting the revolution and industrialization. This music was used to emphasize the industrial evolution of Russia.  This even occurred in classical music where they began banging on symbols or gongs or even starting off pieces with single, repetitive notes.

So the popular artforms of this time began to merge together and started to depict the same frame of mind.  Russia had finally become an industrial country with the industry riding on the back of the newly established proletarian class.