{"id":4686,"date":"2015-02-03T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:48","slug":"blood-and-iron-gastevs-socialist-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/03\/blood-and-iron-gastevs-socialist-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Iron: Gastev&#8217;s Socialist Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksei Gastev takes values of strength and perseverance to new heights with his factory-oriented socialist poem, <em>We Grow Out of Iron.\u201d<\/em> A laborer himself, Gastev knew full well the hardships found on the factory floor, and took advantage of his experiences to maximize the relatability of his poetic works. Drawing on the iron aesthetic of the workspace, Gastev\u2019s verses support the rhythm of the piece exactly as the cross-beams he references support the factory. Between the beam\u2019s demands for greater strength and the pouring iron blood of the workers, Gastev makes it clear that there is no strength without sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>In the latter half of the poem, the narrator of the work transcends mortal bounds, becoming one of the mighty beams supporting the factory and, through it, the industriousness of the Russian people.<\/p>\n<p>The metaphor, while not particularly subtle, serves well to represent the blunt strength with which many viewed the socialist movement. Despite the difficulties, both social and economic, faced by Russia in the early twentieth century the industry workers were a powerful force for change once organized. The obvious fervor Gastev holds for his cause makes his ultimate death in Stalin\u2019s labor camps all the more ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksei Gastev takes values of strength and perseverance to new heights with his factory-oriented socialist poem, We Grow Out of Iron.\u201d A laborer himself, Gastev knew full well the hardships found on the factory floor, and took advantage of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/03\/blood-and-iron-gastevs-socialist-message\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561],"tags":[80502,22768,80507,104486],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","tag-gastev","tag-russia","tag-russian-poetry","tag-socalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}