The story of how Sergei Diaghilev and his visionary friends sought to improve Russia’s unsightly reality – and what came of it

How Malevich, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, Larionov, and others created the radically new art of the 20th century

How the Avant-Garde lost its bid for power – and how the new Soviet art was born

Artistic Life in the Soviet Union after the October Revolution of 1917

How Stalin created Soviet Union’s only permissible style of painting

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The Thaw and the 1960s. The Birth of the Underground

How Khrushchev initially gave a breathing space to unofficial art and then personally drove it underground – and what that underground involved