Russian_Revolution

Russian Revolution RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of the newest tradition breaking, utopian concepts. Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. Yet after being embraced by Lenin and his plan for Monumental Propaganda, the avant-garde fail victim to the very monster they helped to construct. In October 1917, the Red Army joined the Revolutionists and put down once and for all the Tsarist Régime that had reigned over Russian since the fifteenth century. The streets were filled with joy, as all through Russia artists embraced the Revolution, calling for a change. Published in the AkhRR Exhibition of Studies, art, lenin, new, avant-garde, soviet, constructivism, gan, government, artistic, artist, russian, nep, press, society, form, culture, yet, utopian, under, through, revolution, out, need, lodder, ideology, helped, conversation, communist, arts, argued, about, university, tatlin, state, should