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Jan 2024
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Art and the Russian Revolution | Revolut...

Revolutionary Communist Party
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The October Revolution was not just an act of economic and political emancipation for the downtrodden masses, it also represented artistic and creative emancipation.Individual geniuses - such as Eisenstein, Meyerhold, Stanislavski, Tatlin, El Lizzitsky, and Shostakovich - rose to prominence and revolutionised their artforms.But more remarkably, millions of o ... Show More
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