The Art Of The October Revolution

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The success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 briefly opened up a period of intense artistic innovation. Young artists in all genres sought to break the molds of the past and create new expressions that were accessible to the masses and projected the optimism of the revolutionary period.
 
A 1924 advertising poster in the futurist style by Soviet artist Aleksandr Rodchenko Writer Maksim Gorky posing with his granddaughter in 1928 A 1921 poster promoting the Red Army An early Soviet poster urging workers to build railroads to defeat counterrevolutionaries A photograph by Aleksandr Rodchenko, 1925 A still from Sergei Eisenstein\'s 1925 film Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1925 Clothing designs by Soviet designer and artist Vladimir Tatlin, 1924 A model of a design by Vladimir Tatlin for a tower to celebrate the Third International, 1920 Maksim Gorky addresses a congress of Soviet writers in Moscow in 1935
 

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