In October, the Provisional Government was itself overthrown by socialist radicals under Vladimir I. Lenin. Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary with the desire to create a socialist Russia. ... Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the government of Russia to that of Marxism, or communism. ... But they did not immediately embark upon wholesale nationalization of industry: the first nationalization decrees concerned only individual large concerns like the Putilov Works that were already closely involved with the state through defense production and government contracts."...

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The relationship between the government and the artist can be seen through Lenin's Plan for Monumental Propaganda. In April of 1918, Lenin introduced his plan to implement Marxist ideals in conjunction with art. ... Avant-garde artist Igor Grabar recloection when meeting Lenin can best explain Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda when he said "I've just come from Vladimir Ilich He intends to decorate Moscow's squares with statues and monuments to revolutionaries and the great fighters for socialism" (Lodder 19). Lenin's Plan, did in fact do more than just advocate...

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