Art for the Workers

Natalia Murray, PhD (2015), Courtauld Institute of Art, is Associate Lecturer in the history of Russian art at the Courtauld and a Senior Curator, most recently at GRAD gallery. Her last major exhibition was Revolution. Russian Art. 1917–1932 (Royal Academy of Arts, February-April 2017). In 2012 she published a biography of Nikolay Punin (Brill).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Transliteration and ConventionsList of IllustrationsAbbreviations and GlossaryIntroduction1 Roots of Proletarian Culture2 Festivals and Proletarian Art under the Tsars and the Provisional Government3 Narkompros versus Proletkult: Festivals and Proletarian Art after the Bolshevik Revolution4 The Victory of Figuration Over Futurism: from Cultural Diversity to Military Parade5 Street Art - Collective, Politicised: the New Public SpectacleEpilogueBibliographyIndex