Art and Literature Under the Bolsheviks: The crisis of renewal 1917-1924Brandon Taylor aims to provide a full picture of Soviet culture during the years 1917 and 1932, a time when different movements in the art world vied with each other in claiming to represent the true art of the people in the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat. |
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