Cultural Resurgence in Soviet Russia, 1917-1935

This volume presents a new cultural history of the transformation of Russia to the Soviet Union. It looks at how the literature, the sciences and the arts played a key role in the emergence from a largely agrarian economy to world order. It traces the multiple revolutions that resulted in the overthrow of the Tsar's regime during World War I; society, polity, cultural life and the economy saw majo...