The Mind and Face of Bolshevism: An Examination of Cultural Life in Soviet Russia

First published in 1927, this is the English translation of German author René Fülöp-Miller's account of non-political developments under the Bolshevist regime. It thoroughly examines cultural life in the Soviet Union and illustrates, through rich use of photographs throughout, how the mechanistic theory—freed from the control of individualism and individualistic religion, or what the author calls 'a collective man'—applies itself to decorative design, literature, monumental art, the the...