Russian Revolutionary Avant-Garde

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"During the Cold War, the prevailing Western view of Soviet art was that the Communists had driven out the once flourishing Russian avant-garde and replaced it with Socialist Realism. In fact, state-mandated Realist art was only imposed on artists by Stalin in the early 1930s. In the years before, during, and after the Revolution of 1917, the avant-garde of Futurists, Suprematists, Constructivists, Productivists and other movements saw their work as being appropriately, positively Revolutionary. As Bodine notes, "the avant-garde artists of Russia moved to the forefront of cultural activity as a result of their allegiance with the emerging theories of the political revolution."
After 1917, the political revolution welcomed the support of these avant-garde groups for the simple reason that the new government found them to be, "the only section of the artistic.."

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